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Spock Networks, Inc.

Type	Private
Founded	2006
Headquarters	Redwood City, California
Key people	Jaideep Singh, Co-founder/CEO Jay Bhatti, Co-founder/VP product
Website	www.spock.com
Type of site	Search engine
Registration	optional
Available in	English
Launched	2006
Current status	inactive (suspended to add features)
Screenshot Screenshot of spock.com

Spock is a website search engine that indexes 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 100 million people representing over 1.5 billion data records."^[2] These records are from publicly available sources, including LinkedIn, XING, MySpace, Friendster, Wikipedia 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]

Financing

In December 2006, Spock raised $7 million in a Series A round of funding from Clearstone Venture Partners and Opus Capital^[5].

References

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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