Wink, a search site for people has merged with Reunion.com, a mix of a search engine for people as well as a social networking website. The result is an integrated website with vast networks which enable users to re-discover individuals that they knew at some point but lost touch with. The integration of Wink and Reunion.com will result in a brand new website being launched along with an all new name. The site which is should launch by the start of 2009 has said that it will incorporate at least 700 million user profiles.
People using the Wink website can look for profiles through a number of other social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, and various other similar sites, all at the same time. Wink was first released to the public in 2005 and was launched as ‘people-powered search engine’. It was later revamped and handed to the public as an all new ‘people search’ in 2006. The site then announced that it had a base of more than 500 million user profiles. However, it has been noticed that not all of these user profiles are in working order. Some profile pages do not open and some are just empty.

This new website is not the first venture between these two sites. Wink and Reunion.com have a long standing history together as they made a deal for a “multi-year, multi-million dollar agreement” in 2007 which allowed Reunion users to use Wink’s search facility.