At first, Spock was open as an invitation-only beta. Intelius has acquired Spock, according to Venture Beat. Spock is a people search engine. Spock launched in the summer of 2007. In August 2007, it launched to the public, with 1.5 billion people...
While companies like WhitePages.com and ZoomInfo have been in the market for a few years, a flood of new entries have popped up, including Spock.com, which launched in public beta today. In the private beta, the two main groups using Spock were...
The long awaited public unveiling of Spock, the people search engine, takes place today. I did a brief review of Spock back on June 29th. One of the neat things about Spock is that as a vertical search engine, it operates in a single context.
People search engine Spock is still in invitiation only beta, but I had a chance to review the product. This approach gives Spock substantial leverage. Spock appears to use a combination of algorithmic tagging, where it develops tags for people...