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VentureBeat: Spock offers an ambitious “people” search engine

  • Dave McClure · 3 years ago
    Spock rocks. 'nuff said.
  • Greg Linden · 3 years ago
    Minor typo, the link to Zoominfo is broken. Should be zoominfo.com, not zoomfinfo.com.
  • Matt Marshall · 3 years ago
    thx, fixed.
  • BGP · 3 years ago
    It may work better than Google, that remains to be seen, but will it work better once the online marketers start gaming it? It's one thing to make a superior engine in a closed test environment.
    Google surely could do many things better as well if they didn't have to constantly filter out the thousands of SEM's who game the results.
  • Tim · 3 years ago
    also a typo in the nicole kidman paragraph. she won, was not nominated.
  • Matt Marshall · 3 years ago
    Thanks Tim. Fixed.
  • Monica Zhang · 3 years ago
    This is good idea evan in biz model. I found another website in Chinese market which is called ucloo.com including 90 million personal data, which is doing something leading in China at people search engine. The difference is that Spock search by what the people wants to know, while UCLOO search by who the people knows.
  • Jack Campbell · 3 years ago
    Knover (http://www.knover.com) has already launched a cool people search site, but their site only has notable people.
  • HARRY · 3 years ago
    May the force be with you.
  • daniel · 3 years ago
    live long and search...sounds great, can't wait to see it.
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  • KYLEIGH · 3 years ago
    Just wanted to comment on how much I enjoy reading your posts. Thanks!
  • Sarai · 3 years ago
    I think you have done an excellent job with your site. I will return in the near future.
  • Deborah · 3 years ago
    Hi I am here looking for a Mark Randolph Bleak he use to live in Alaska and then moved to Elko, Nv that is where I think he still is, but it is imparitive that I keep in touch as to where he is, long story, but I will simply die if I have no idea where he is. Like I said long story and I dont' want to get into it right now, but I need to know that he is still in Elko, Nv or I will have a panic attack!!! wish I had a ph number would be better but for now just knowing he is there is good enough for me! thanks hope someone will see this and let me know if he is still there. Deborah
  • Dominique Sanders · 2 years ago
    I'm looking for my baby brothers of whom I've lost trac of after loosing our mom and I would like too know if they are still alive and well it hurts me of what we went through but I can not blame nobody but myself, so please help me I have no resource of money because during that time I have had a little girl also. And I want to do right by her as well but I need to complete what I promissed my Mother on her death bed. That I would take good care of my brothers, no matter what......
  • Susan Green · 2 years ago
    If you're looking for a comprehensive people search try www.pipl.com
  • Peter Molander · 2 years ago
    Very Interesting! But where are the material taken from and if its based on WIki ---Houston we got a problem.... with data quality. A more field proven service is the UK based high end service Silobreaker (www.silobreaker.com) Rumors says that Silobreaker will launch a free service very soon. Compare...And why don´t just use Google---- Wiki seems to be dominating all content....
  • karthi · 2 years ago
    Guys
    All the best for you ....coz you are going to fight with giants like google who knows the pulse of each user...... but remember "one should have healthy disregard for the impossible"
    karthikeyanmect.blogspot.com
  • Anon · 2 years ago
    Good luck trying to supplant Google/Facebook, not to mention Pipl. Why recreate something that already exists? Wikipedia has just as much info on people, and more!
  • people search dude · 1 year ago
    I still can't get over the fact that they recieved $1 million from Clearstone Venture Partners....