Reunion.com, a leading people search service, and Wink, the world’s largest people search engine, have merged to form the most comprehensive online platform for people looking to find each other on the Web.

An entirely new brand and Web site will launch early next year to cement the unique positioning of this joint company as the leader in people search, providing users with access to a combined total of more than 700 million profiles that span social networks, online communities, and other proprietary sources.

The recent explosion of social networks has created a multitude of options for people to establish online identities – making it that much more challenging to find people you’re looking for. The new joint company will leverage its wide array of cutting-edge technologies to search the entire Web and across networks to help you find everyone – no matter what sites they are using.

“With 5 billion searches across the Web each month, the people search vertical is bigger than any other. Our goal is to create the definitive people search service that creates a single source for connecting with people. In the coming months, we’ll work closely with Wink to combine our company strengths, integrate best-of-breed technologies, and offer our users the most robust people search service available.” said Jeffrey Tinsley, founder and chief executive officer of Reunion.com.

Wink’s superior search results integrate a number of online sources and cover the world’s largest social networks, including MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Friendster, Bebo, Live Spaces, Yahoo!360, Xanga, and Twitter.

“We’re aiming to create an entirely new online experience that simplifies people’s lives by making it easy to find and keep up with everyone they know. There will be exciting developments in the coming months as we integrate our strengths and push our business forward.” said Michael Tanne, chief executive officer of Wink.

Reunion.com, a profitable company with a unique business model in the people search category, enjoys more than 12 million unique visitors monthly and is ranked in the top 100 most visited sites on the Web. By combining the power of Wink’s technology with Reunion.com’s reach and user base of 50 million members.

In tough economic times with rampant lay-offs and terminations, here is a company that is growing and hiring with a strong revenue stream thanks in large part to the fact that the crux of its business is not ad-supported.