Spock (website)
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2006 |
| Headquarters | Redwood City, California |
| Key people | Jaideep Singh, Co-founder/CEO Jay Bhatti, Co-founder/VP product Hongche Liu, Chief Information Architect |
| Website | www.spock.com |
| Type of site | Search engine |
| Registration | optional |
| Available in | English |
| Launched | 2006 |
| Current status | active |
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Spock is a vertical search engine or entity search engine on people. The name "Spock" is explained with a backronym: "single point of contact (by) keyword."[1] Founded in 2006 by Jay Bhatti and Jaideep Singh, it has "indexed over 250 million people representing over 1.5 billion data records."[2] These records are from publicly available sources, including Wikipedia, IMDB, ESPN, LinkedIn, Hi5, MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, Youtube, Flickr, Twitter, FEC, corporate biographies, university faculty and staff pages, real estate agents sites, school alumni and member directory pages, etc. The company maintains that "30% of all Internet searches are people-related"[3].
As entity resolution is the main algorithmic hurdle of their indexing endeavour, Spock has issued and awarded the Spock Challenge Prize.
Spock opened its service to public beta on August 8, 2007.[4]
Starting in 2009, Spock search powers some other sites' people search applications, such as Friendster [5] and Hi5.com[6].
Financing
In December 2006, Spock raised $7 million in a Series A round of funding from Clearstone Venture Partners and Opus Capital[7].
On April 30, 2009, Spock was acquired by Intelius [8].
References
- ↑ Spock Joins Crowded People Search Space
- ↑ http://www.spock.com/do/pages/pr_web_expo
- ↑ Exclusive Screenshots: Spock’s New People Engine by Michael Arrington
- ↑ Spock Open Public Beta by Nick Gonzalez
- ↑ Friendster people search
- ↑ Hi5 people search
- ↑ CrunchBase Company Information: Spock
- ↑ Intelius buys Spock
External links
- Spock - People Search
- Spock - the People Search Engine Co-founder, Jay Bhatti, interviewed by Stan Relihan on The Connections Show (audio podcast)
- Why I'm so excited about Spock by Tim O'Reilly
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