Ever wonder if that new person you are dating has a record, been divorced or just has a blog? The folks over at Pipl have created a deep web search engine, currently in BETA. Included in the search are public records. It is amazing what comes out - driving infractions, divorce, news articles. You have to try it out to see just how cool (scary as hell) this really is.

From their website:

"How come the best search engines fail so miserably when it comes to people search? The answer lies in a little known but very important part of the web called "the deep web".

"Also known as "invisible web", the term "deep web" refers to a vast repository of underlying content, such as documents in online databases that general-purpose web crawlers cannot reach. The deep web content is estimated at 500 times that of the surface web, yet has remained mostly untapped due to the limitations of traditional search engines.

"Since most personal profiles, public records and other people-related documents are stored in databases and not on static web pages, most of the higher-quality information about people is simply "invisible" to a regular search engine. "

www.pipl.com