123people.co.uk your one-stop shop for all your celebrity fixes.

UK (SANEPR.com) February 11, 2009 -- 123people (www.123people.co.uk) is fast becoming the world's most popular people search site. Since launching last year users are seeing the value in targeted people searching.


Celebrity searches are a hot trend, especially after popular stories in the news. Fans worrying if Miley Cyrus is losing her cool, whats really going on with Lily Allen, or if Christian Bale's outrage is going to threaten his Oscar's potential. Stories like these prompt further online searching for facts and more news. 123People.co.uk provides a perfect service to users who are interested and fascinated by VIPs.


123people's innovative search service, allows users to dig a little deeper into life streams, as well as keep track on what is being said about their favorite celebrity in news stories and blogs.
Search results include: images, social networking profiles, email addresses, web links, news sources biographies and blog listings.


'We are out to change the way Web users search and discover information about their favourite celebs'
Says Russell Perry CEO of 123people.co.uk 'Some years ago people used the telephone book to find peoples' information. But today it is not only about addresses and telephone numbers – it is about videos, photos, email addresses, blogs and much more. 123People.co.uk bring superior search results because our search is optimized and gets better everyday'.


123people is designed to fundamentally improve the quality of people search on the web. Retrieving people information from globally accessible databases and social networks on the web, as well as searching country-specific websites, providing fast and comprehensive results.


Features:

*123people combines people-related data into one easy to view page
*User can tag search results and give them more relevance
*Includes popular social media profiles (i.g. Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Xing, Friendster, HiFive, FlickR, Bebo, Bloglines, Blogger, Zoominfo, LastFM,)
*Instant Messenger profiles and Microblogs
*Phone numbers and emails
*News site
*123people is available in English, French, Italian and German.




About 123people
123people, (www.123people.co.uk) serves up the preeminent experience in finding “everyone you (want to) know” by retrieving people information from hundreds of local and international sites on the web. Launched in 2007 by European-based Web 2.0 incubator i5invest, 123people offers the next generation of People Search.

About i5invest
European-based Web 2.0 incubator, i5invest (www.i5invest.com) works to help European startups grow and acquire venture capital funding in the US. With a network extending from Vienna, Austria to Silicon Valley.