Spock.com - The Best Way To Search People
Thursday, December 13, 2007 by Web Mistress
Spock.com, tagged as “The People Search Engine” has massively gained popularity soon after the site was launched. A collaborative web application, founded on advanced academic algorithms, which is currently becoming the leader in this market comprises Spock.com - The Best Way To Search People.
And what’s more:
- It has indexed over 100 million people representing over 1.5 billion data records, which is massive but most of all provides
- The market is available: 30% of all Internet searches are people related
- The records include data from all leading social networks, which is the big thing social users are waiting for
- It has raised $7 million of funding, which provides stability and potential for growth
- It has the support and PR from the leaders in “the” community: O’Reilly, Arrington, and many more
- It allows anyone to add information to persons (annotations), and also allows new functionality for groups e.g. using tags for group identifications
- It allows smart persons or groups to enter their own people search algorithms so it will keep light years in front of any competition
- It allows users to claim their profile to validate their own information and add new information, which is a need for a large group of very active social Internet users and it allows users to use their profile as their main hub
