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Identified

Identified is a search engine that helps target professionals from the largest bank of people online, Facebook. Through Identified, you can connect with other professionals, find employees and employers, interact with others in the same profession and increase your professional contacts.

This is how Identified works. It scans through millions of user profiles and assigns them a score based on educational background, work experience and connections. Companies, universities and organizations are also included. Their scores is the average of the individual scores of its members. It can become a serious competitor to famous LinkedIn.

Identified looks to make job hunting and staff hunting easy, effective and efficient. Sorting out good employees for good employers is a difficult task that takes a lot of time and effort, and that is where Identified helps you. One of the advantages of using Identified is that it takes out information from your already existing social media account so that you don’t need to spend time in opening and maintaining another account.

The tagline of Identified goes ‘Recruiting made easy’. Well, this is good news for both employers and employees, but it hints to weigh towards the employers. This newest social search engine has the features to grow big considering the unpredictability of social media market. In few weeks, it has grown to 120,000 registered users and 40 million searchable profiles on the site.

News is that Identified.com has been funded with $1.5 million by Silicon Valley’s premium investors. Identified was founded by Adeyemi Ajao and Brendan Wallace when they were students at Stranford University. Within a week of launch, 90% of students at Stanford were using the search engine. With this success rate and the hope of greater success in social networking, Identified.com is all set to challenge some big names.

Identified, beta, version has been launched. The company is based in San Francisco and has 25 employees.