type private founded 2006 headquarters redwood city california key people jaideep singh co founder ceo jay bhatti co founder vp product hongche liu chief information architect website www.spock.com alexa rank 483 187 april 2014 update 1 type of site search engine registration optional available in english launched 2006 current status active spock is a vertical search engine or entity search engine on people . the name spock is explained with a backronym single point of contact by keyword . 2 founded in 2006 by jay bhatti and jaideep singh it has indexed over 250 million people representing over 1.5 billion data records . 3 these records are from publicly available sources including wikipedia imdb espn linkedin hi5 myspace friendster facebook youtube flickr twitter fec disambiguation needed corporate biographies university faculty and staff pages real estate agents sites school alumni and member directory pages etc. the company maintains that 30 % of all internet searches are people related . 4 as entity resolution is the main algorithmic hurdle of their indexing endeavour spock has issued and awarded the spock challenge prize . the winning entry combines various machine learning algorithms . 5 spock opened its service to public beta on august 8 2007 . 6 financing edit in december 2006 spock raised 7 million in a series a round of funding from clearstone venture partners and opus capital . 7 on april 30 2009 spock was acquired by intelius . 8 references edit spock.com site info . alexa internet . retrieved 2014 04 01 . spock joins crowded people search space http www.spock.com do pages pr web expo exclusive screenshots spock s new people engine by michael arrington weighted experts a solution for the spock data mining challenge spock open public beta by nick gonzalez crunchbase company information spock intelius buys spock external links edit spock people search spock the people search engine co founder jay bhatti interviewed by stan relihan on the connections show audio podcast why i m so excited about spock by tim o reilly this world wide web related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e this article about an it related or software related company or corporation is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title spock website & oldid 648005895 categories internet search enginescompanies established in 2006information technology company stubshidden categories articles containing potentially dated statements from april 2014all articles containing potentially dated statementsall articles with links needing disambiguationarticles with links needing disambiguation from february 2013all stub articlesworld wide web stubs navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran aisitaliano edit links this page was last modified on 20 february 2015 at 07 30 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view