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| website_type = profile aggregator |
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'''Spokeo''' is a profile aggregator<ref>{{cite web |title=Spokeo, the Big Brother of social networking |url=http://www.pandia.com/sew/620-spokeo.html |date=25 February 2008 |publisher=Pandia Search Engine News |accessdate=3 July 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Some personal info will always be on Web |url= |
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'''Spokeo''' is a ] ]. Unlike other people search engines that search for one person at a time, Spokeo imports an user's entire ] address book and makes all contacts' online footprints instantly available.<ref>, April 8, 2009</ref><ref></ref> Spokeo retrieves content ranging from MySpace profiles to Pandora playlists to LinkedIn job descriptions. |
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http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/140459 |date=June 13, 2009 |publisher=East Valley Tribune |accessdate=3 July 2009}}</ref> web site. |
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==Technology== |
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Spokeo's main technology is a ] ] search engine that can locate social data that is not indexed by standard search engines, such as Google.<ref>, March 10, 2009</ref>. |
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Spokeo finds people's social network accounts by performing deep Web searches across over 40 such networks,<ref>, January 28, 2008</ref><ref>, January 31, 2008</ref> including but not limited to ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ].<ref>, April 8, 2009</ref>. Spokeo is strictly a search engine, not a social network. Although Spokeo syndicates only publicly available information,<ref>, November 30, 2006</ref> many people may not realize that the information it aggregates is public.<ref>, May 13, 2008</ref> |
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Spokeo is implemented in ]. Launched in 2006, it is one of the early Ruby on Rails showcases.<ref>, December 8, 2006</ref> |
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==History== |
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Spokeo was founded in 2006 by four ] students. Spokeo 1.0 pioneered and introduced the concept of ] to the world on CNet,<ref>, December 5, 2006</ref> GigaOm,<ref>, November 28, 2006</ref> and TechCrunch<ref>, November 29, 2006</ref> on November 2006. The concept quickly caught on among early adopters. The most popular social network aggregator today is ].{{Fact|date=April 2009}} |
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Spokeo 2.0 launched on TechCrunch a year later, in December 2007.<ref>, December 10, 2007</ref> Initially, Spokeo 2.0 introduced its people search technology to help users automatically aggregate their social network accounts. However, users increasingly discussed its people search capabilities more than its aggregator roots.<ref>, December 21, 2007</ref> Spokeo rebranded itself as a people search engine later that year. |
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Up until March, 2008, Spokeo encouraged users to introduce their friends to the social search service. Spokeo discontinued this practice after receiving several complaints.<ref></ref><ref></ref><ref></ref> |
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==Content privacy== |
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Spokeo aggregates only publicly available information; however, the information that it aggregates is often obscure and hard to find on the Web.{{Fact|date=April 2009}} Spokeo has developed an automatic "content privacy mirroring" technology. {{Fact|date=June 2009}} When someone finds that their content is public via Spokeo and then makes it private, Spokeo automatically detects and reflects these privacy changes in a couple of days.{{Fact|date=June 2009}} |
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