From the monthly archives:

August 2007

The San Francisco Chronicle takes a close look at Spock and how it may challenge Google:

Locate a long-lost friend or old classmate. Get dirt on a potential hire. These are just a couple of the uses of an emerging group of search engines that find information about people.

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Spock : un buzz fondé sur nos craintes ?

by Jay Bhatti on August 29, 2007

French news site Agora Vox discusses Spock:

Des nouveaux moteurs de recherche, il en apparaît quasiment un chaque semaine. C’est à qui indexera les images, à qui indexera les musiques, et ainsi de suite. Fascinés par le “modèle” Google, tous tentent d’attirer l’attention, tant bien que mal. Les exemples ne manquent pas…

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Spock: Search’s final frontier?

by Jay Bhatti on August 28, 2007

ZDNet Asia interviews Spock CEO Jaideep Singh:

What newbie Web 2.0 company wouldn’t want to become the next Google? Easier said than done, of course, and if you had a nickel every time you heard that prediction for a start-up, you’d be in Eric Schmidt’s tax bracket.

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Renee Blodgett sizes up potential clients the same way a venture capitalist would. As president and founder of Blodgett Communications, she gravitates toward startups that have a focused plan beyond just being bought by the highest bidder.

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Spock, The New Search In Town, Seeks Advertisers

by Jay Bhatti on August 27, 2007

Tameka Key of Media Posts reviews Spock:

Since its commercial launch two weeks ago, a reported 2 million unique visitors have checked out Spock, the vertical search engine aimed at indexing “everyone in the world.”

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Spock Hosts Lunch 2.0

by Jay BhattiAugust 24, 2007 Jay Bhatti on TV

On Wednesday, Spock was proud to host Lunch 2.0 at our headquarters here in Redwood City. Over 200 curious people showed up to mingle, learn more about Spock, and score some free pizza.

Mingling at Spock
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Photographers were there in full force, so check out some of the pictures on flickr.  Eric wrote a blog post about the event too!

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Krontrolle uber die eigene digitale Reputation

by Jay BhattiAugust 23, 2007 Spock Research

Readers Edition discusses controlling your identity with Spock.

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Spock Debuts Next Generation Search Focused On People.

by Jay BhattiAugust 16, 2007 Spock News

Business Wire reports about Spock.com:
SAN FRANCISCO — Spock.com, a leading search application for discovering people, is one of six Launch Pad companies selected to demo at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco on Monday, April 16th, 2007. SPOCK will be announcing the launch of their invitation-only private Beta at the Expo.
Spock’s mission is to organize [...]

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Spock, le moteur de recherche aux grandes oreilles

by Jay BhattiAugust 16, 2007 Spock News

French publication Futura-Sciences takes a closer look at Spock.com:
Les oreilles pointues et ultrasensibles du célèbre Vulcain de Star Trek ont-elles inspiré les créateurs de Spock, le nouveau moteur de recherche ? On pourrait le penser, car il n’ambitionne pas moins que de recenser chacun des six milliards d’êtres humains qui peuplent notre planète.
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Where are your friends on the web?

by Jay BhattiAugust 15, 2007 Spock Research

Spock finds out where information about people is located on the web, and directs our users to it. For example, on search result about Dave McClure, you can see his facebook profile, Myspace profile, and many more places where there is information about him on the web. What sites do Spock users end up clicking on? [...]

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