MyLife .com competitions Another less than good people search engine

For the love of all that's wonderful will someone, somewhere, *please* create a people search engine that's actually any good! The latest dross to roll off the line is MyLife.com which says 'Find everyone, all in one place' which sounds great. However, if you want to use the search engine you have to register first. Well, to save you the hassle of doing this, I went through and did it myself. Up pops 'You are now a member with limited access... Become a Premium Member for full access!' at something like $5 a month. Not only that, but there's a 'limited time offer' with a little stopwatch clicking down! It's hard to get much tackier than that, but they try.

Clicking through to the next screen brings up the 'give us your email addresses and passwords so we can check for your friends' line. Seriously - they're expecting me to give out details like this? Desperate to see the results of my search (looking for my own email address) I finally get through to the next screen, where I'm supposed to put in my details so that they can be added to their database. Clicking on again I'm hopeful that this time I'll get to the details of my search.

Finally! Only... I'm back at a search screen. And I'm asked to give the details again, and this time with the addition that the individual I'm looking for has to be in the US. Brilliant. So it's 'Find everyone you know' as long as they're in the US. Still, I carry on, get my list of results and guess what - in order to see anything useful I've got to pay to get premium access.