From the monthly archives:

September 2007

Political Contributions now on Spock

by Jay Bhatti on September 21, 2007

We just uploaded political contributions to Spock. What does this mean? Well, anyone on Spock who has donated money to a political campaign is now tagged as a supporter of that campaign. For example, if someone donated money to Rudy Giuliani, they would be tagged as “Rudolph W Giuliani supporter” .
You can check out the search here: http://www.spock.com/q/Rudolph-W-Giuliani-supporter


People are also tagged with the party they donated to. For example: http://www.spock.com/q/Democratic-Party-contributor

We have presidential candidates, as well as local politicians. Let us know if you find anything interesting! I thought that it was interesting to see who our CEOs support: http://www.spock.com/q/CEO-supporter

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Spock: People Search With A Man + Machine Approach

by Jay Bhatti on September 19, 2007

Search_engine_land Spock: People Search With A Man + Machine Approach
by Vanessa Fox | September 19, 2007 | PDF of Article

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Google Yourself. Then Ask Yourself if You’re Happy with what You Find.

by Jay Bhatti on September 19, 2007

Future Google Yourself. Then Ask Yourself if You’re Happy with what You Find.
by Joel Burslem | September 19, 2007 | PDF of Article

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Promisuche in Videos

by Jay Bhatti on September 19, 2007

Der Spiegel breaks down people search and Spock:

Statische Online-Gesichtserkennung war gestern. Stars und Sternchen können jetzt auch in Videoclips gefunden werden, Reuters macht’s möglich.

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Enterprising recruiters in the UK search on Spock

by Jay Bhatti on September 19, 2007

Sue Weekes of Recruiter interviews Jay Bhatti about how Spock can help recruiters.

UK recruiters are among the biggest users of the US-based personal search website, Spock.com (founded by Jay Bhatti and Jaideep Singh), the latest beta version of which was launched this August.

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6 Milliarden Menschen: Spock will all finden

by Jay BhattiSeptember 17, 2007 Spock News

Kleine Zeitung discusses Spock’s plans to index the Web:
Ein Start-up aus den USA hat eine Suchmaschine ins Netz gestellt, die das Ziel hat, jeden Menschen auf der Erde aufzunehmen. Bisher sollen es rund 100 Millionen sein, die “Spock” vor allem auf anderen Portalen wie Flickr & Co gesammelt hat.
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SPOCK POWER Released

by Jay BhattiSeptember 6, 2007 Spock Research

Spock is pleased to announce the release of Spock Power, an algorithm that rewards loyal Spock users and prevents spam.  Spock Power determines how much influence you have on Spock each time you vote or add a tag, image, link, or relationship. The more power you have, the greater your ability to influence the results [...]

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Gläserner Mensch dank Netz

by Jay BhattiSeptember 6, 2007 Spock News

Westdeutsche Zeitung takes a look at Spock and how it might change the people search landscape:
Die Plattform spock.com bündelt sämtliche User-Informationen, die im Netz verfügbar sind. Vor allem Versicherungen interessieren sich für die sensiblen Daten.
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Photo Attribution

by Jay BhattiSeptember 4, 2007 Spock Research

You might have noticed the recent changes to how pictures are uploaded and displayed on Spock. We are currently working with several photographers to ensure pictures on Spock are fairly credited to the person who took the photo.  We are implementing these changes based on their recommendations.
Current Attribution

Spock always links back to the source of a photograph. We include [...]

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