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| '''Spokeo''' is a social-network-based people search service. Unlike traditional people search services that search for one person at a time, Spokeo searches a group of people, usually those that contained within a user's ] address book. Spokeo looks for ] accounts for each person by performing deep Web searches across over 40 such networks,<ref>, January 28, 2008</ref><ref>, January 31, 2008</ref> including ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ].<ref>, December 10, 2007</ref> | '''Spokeo''' is a social-network-based people search service. Unlike traditional people search services that search for one person at a time, Spokeo searches a group of people, usually those that contained within a user's ] address book. Spokeo looks for ] accounts for each person by performing deep Web searches across over 40 such networks,<ref>, January 28, 2008</ref><ref>, January 31, 2008</ref> including ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ].<ref>, December 10, 2007</ref> | ||
| Spokeo was founded in 2006 by ] |
Spokeo was founded in 2006 by ] spammers. It is implemented in ].<ref>, December 8, 2006</ref> | ||
| Spokeo is not a ], and it does not support any social network features. It syndicates only publicly available information,<ref>, November 30, 2006</ref> although the information that it aggregates may not be commonly known to be public.<ref>, May 13, 2008</ref> | Spokeo is not a ], and it does not support any social network features. It syndicates only publicly available information,<ref>, November 30, 2006</ref> although the information that it aggregates may not be commonly known to be public.<ref>, May 13, 2008</ref> | ||
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Computer software |
| Founded | Saratoga, California (2006) |
| Headquarters | Mountain View, California |
| Key people | Harrison Tang, Ray Chen, Eric Liang, Mike Daly |
| Products | Spokeo People Search |
| Website | Spokeo People Search |
Spokeo is a social-network-based people search service. Unlike traditional people search services that search for one person at a time, Spokeo searches a group of people, usually those that contained within a user's webmail address book. Spokeo looks for social network accounts for each person by performing deep Web searches across over 40 such networks, including Bebo, Blogger, DailyMotion, DeviantArt, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Fotolog, Friendster, HI5, ImageStation, Imeem, Last.fm, LiveJournal, MySpace, Netlog, Photobucket, Vox, Webshots, Windows Live Spaces, Wretch, Xanga, Yahoo Video, and YouTube.
Spokeo was founded in 2006 by Stanford University spammers. It is implemented in Ruby on Rails.
Spokeo is not a social network, and it does not support any social network features. It syndicates only publicly available information, although the information that it aggregates may not be commonly known to be public.
See also
References
- Friends Under The Microscope, January 28, 2008
- New site feeds off of other Web sites, January 31, 2008
- Spokeo 2.0: A Feed Reader For Your Friends, December 10, 2007
- Spokeo: Meta Social Networking, December 8, 2006
- The RSS Blog on Spokeo, November 30, 2006
- New Sites Make It Easier To Spy on Your Friends, May 13, 2008