Comments on: People search engine Spock launches

By: M. Hones

M. Hones — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:23:29 +0000

New Neat People Search Engine Site!

http://www.PeopleSearches.com

By: Craig Butz

Craig Butz — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:07:58 +0000

This site is being hyped to the exclusion of some very real privacy concerns: http://craigiest.blogspot.com/2008/03/spockcom-review-no-its-just-creepy.html

By: yasni Blog » Blog Archive » Wie oft nutze ich yasni? Ein Selbsterfahrungsbericht.

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:34:25 +0000

[...] selten. Ist das bei Personensuche auch so? Berater-Hype und kein Nutzen? Angeblich sollen bis zu 30% der Suchanfragen auf Google personenbezogen sein. Wie ist es bei “mir”, einem ganz normalen yasni-Nutzer (PS: Ich [...]

By: Joshua A. Trevino

Joshua A. Trevino — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:54:20 +0000

Thank You

By: links for 2007-08-13 « David Black

links for 2007-08-13 « David Black — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:32:09 +0000

[...] People search engine Spock launches – VentureBeat “It has remained secretive for months… testing its engine, adding some 100,000 profiles and inserting other social networking features.” (tags: internet socialmedia vertical search people) [...]

By: Spock Launches To Public « iBrian

Spock Launches To Public « iBrian — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:13:03 +0000

[...] to VentureBeat, Spock "has a chance to steal searchers from Google. About 30 percent of searches on Google [...]

By: Brian Galovits

Brian Galovits — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:24:55 +0000

I applaud Spock for a great idea and vision; it will be interesting to watch how the user base can affect the tags for searches and how this will change searching all together. For a business-person search that saves time Broadlook Technologies' Diver is a great way to find people. Diver extracts the contact information from the links returned from search engines, eliminating the need to click on every result to find contacts. Broadlook offers a short overview video and free trial here:Diver

By: Martin Levy

Martin Levy — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:02:58 +0000

At every turn there is a request for login/password for other services like LinkedIn or Plaxo or whatever. This worries me.

The value of having self auditing of content is fine, but I don’t agree with the “cheap way out” of collecting everyone’s passwords. I expects the smarts to be done by Spock.com vs. me. Plus… never give out you password… Never.

Finally, I would say that the potential is there. It’s as slow as molasses and could do with a face lift already… Didn’t anyone learn anything from Flickr and its very clean interfaces?

Martin

By: Dee

Dee — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:07:26 +0000

Someone in marketing and advertising needs a raise. I can’t get the site to load. Keep up the good work. Some initial bumps in the road were expected.

By: Jaideep Singh

Jaideep Singh — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:05:02 +0000

Dear VentureBeat Readers,

After a very successful private beta, we launched the Spock public beta today with great fanfare. During the private beta period we created a strong community of users, bloggers, and reviewers. For this we are very grateful.

In anticipation of our public beta launch, we had catered for peak capacity of 100 page views a second, which translates to 300 million page views a month. However, since this morning we have been getting a consistent request rate of 300 to 400 page views a second, which translates to nearly 1 billion page views a month.

Although this level of demand is gratifying, we sincerely apologize for not being able to serve it all. The entire Spock team is working hard to add more capacity today and tomorrow. Please bear with us while we add more bandwidth to meet the needs of our global user base.

Sincerely,
Jaideep Singh
Co-founder & CEO

By: correlate » Blog Archive » Spock Launches Public Beta

correlate » Blog Archive » Spock Launches Public Beta — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:58:25 +0000

[...] processing technology came out of private alpha and made itself available to the world. A good write-up from VentureBeat. One can tell that they are heading into a compelling direction even in the face [...]

By: New Breed of People Search Engine Launches: Spock.com : Natural Search Blog

New Breed of People Search Engine Launches: Spock.com : Natural Search Blog — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:09:26 +0000

[...] (VentureBeat’s writeup on Spock is worth reading, and I see that Greg Sterling just mentioned Spock on Search Engine Land a few minutes ago, too.) Technorati Tags: people search, privacy, privacy concerns, spock, white pages [...]

By: Dan Blank: Publishing, Innovation & the Web » Blog Archive » The Lack of Context in Search

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:56:53 +0000

[...] of other companies (other than Google, that is) who are working on this. One recent launch is Spock, a search engine for people: “Here’s a way Spock differs from Google: Type “boxer” into Spock, and its top search [...]

By: David Somerset

David Somerset — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:43:01 +0000

Not NEARLY as interesting as WikiYou…

By: Spock Offers a Person-centric Perspective on Your Everyday Searches

Spock Offers a Person-centric Perspective on Your Everyday Searches — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:30:42 +0000

[...] a search engine focused on finding people, launched out of invitation-only beta today. I haven’t mentioned Spock much here in the past. But [...]