The much awaited, Spock.com, a people search engine has finally been unveiled in beta.

“Spock is the online leader in personal search, helping users find and discover people. With over one hundred million people already indexed and millions added every day, Spock is building the broadest and deepest people specific search engine.”

Simple and easy, you cansearch for people in Spock by name, e-mail address, tags, location, age range, gender, and picture.

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About Spock:

“Spock is a search engine that focuses its results on people. You can enter your query into the empty text field on the top of the home page, and click search to find people.

Spock basic search is able and willing to search using three different types of information:

  1. Name: When searching by names, you can search by first, last, or full name. For example, “Fred Thompson“, “Prince William of Wales“, and “Lawson” can be used to find people on Spock.
  2. E-mail Address: Searching by e-mail address is relatively straight forward. Just enter an e-mail address in the search bar, and if it’s in Spock’s omnipotent database, the corresponding profile will be returned.
  3. Tag: Tags are words or short phrases that describe a person, like “libertarian” or “fighter pilot”. Cool searches can alway be found on the home page or here.

In the Spock blog, Jaideep Singh the Co-founder & CEO says:

“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.”

To finalize this launch, the spock team was funded by Clearstone Venture Partners who also funded Overture, PayPal, NetZero, MP3.com, Internet Brands etc and Opus Capital Ventures.

Author

Navneet Kaushal is the Editor-in-Chief of PageTraffic Buzz. A leading search strategist, Navneet helps clients maintain an edge in search engines and the online media. Navneet is also the CEO of SEO Services company PageTraffic which is one of the leading search marketing company in Asia.