Comments on: Spock And Intelius? Uh Oh.

By: Friendster Partners With Intelius. Let The Scams Begin.

Friendster Partners With Intelius. Let The Scams Begin. — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:45:30 +0000

[...] The Friendster press release doesn’t talk about how the service will be monetized, but it looks like the integration may be through a recent Intelius acquisition, Spock. [...]

By: Brendan

Brendan — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:27:28 +0000

Joemama, you don’t even care about your own privacy? You’re an idiot!

The “service” that Intelius provides is nothing short of Orwellian. Naveen Jain should go to jail.

By: confidential

confidential — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:18:01 +0000

Actually, Arrington is spot on. The employees at Spock are not very happy with the acquisition….from what I heard, they didn’t get anything.

By: Privacy Lives » Blog Archive » Computerworld: Spock sale sparks privacy concerns

Tue, 05 May 2009 08:22:20 +0000

[...] background check service has purchased Spock, a people search engine, for an undisclosed amount. Some say there’s a shady vibe that emanates from Intelius that may not bode well for Spock, but the [...]

By: Levy

Levy — Sat, 02 May 2009 20:20:03 +0000

Hmm – spock is able to be bought by the top company in there space and all arrington knows to do is tear it down.

why don’t you give credit for entrepreneurs who were able to get an exit for their VCs, employees and themselves in this shitty economy.

Sincerely
Former Techcrunch Reader

By: Ajit Jaokar

Ajit Jaokar — Sat, 02 May 2009 08:58:22 +0000

I think as you rightly said, this acquisition raises some key points about Web 2.0 itself and the privacy implications of Web 2.0. A longish blog:

Harnessing Digital footprints: The dark side of Web 2.0 – 01 May 2009 was the day I lost faith in Web 2.0(hopefully we don’t make the same mistakes with Mobile Web 2.0 and respect privacy) http://opengard...ssing_digi.html

By: Notary

Notary — Sat, 02 May 2009 03:49:02 +0000

When is the world going to be rid of the scammers at Inelius. Just how much can they get away with. How do they do it. How can they live with themselves.

By: Background Check Company Intelius Buys Spock.com

Background Check Company Intelius Buys Spock.com — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:52:05 +0000

[...] Singh confirmed the deal with VentureBeat and TechCrunch speculated the deal earlier. Spock raised $8 million around December 2006 from Clearstone and Opus. Spock [...]

By: SSM

SSM — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:36:51 +0000

Might want to check this graph out too. Alexa is notoriously bad with traffic analytics. Compete is anecdotally known to be a lot better.

http://siteanal...x.com+cuil.com/

This data is corroborated on QuantCast as well. http://www.quan...t.com/spock.com

By: Techeroid » Intelius buys Spock, the people search engine

Techeroid » Intelius buys Spock, the people search engine — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:30:37 +0000

[...] The deal was signed today, VentureBeat just confirmed with Spock’s co-founder Jaideep Singh. Unconfirmed rumors of the deal first appeared yesterday on Techcrunch. [...]

By: cpt kirk

cpt kirk — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:50:36 +0000

too funny, intelispock, hope spock team knows what will happen next

this is turning into infospace II (ask go2net how deals go with naveen)

type “dot con job” in google for a great story about naveen and his business tactics

By: Carlton Northern

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:18:39 +0000

Actually, I dont think people search will be dominated by Facebook and LinkedIn. Both of these sites are limited by those who choose to use their service. This leaves out oh only say about 6 billion people. I think the real people search engine is Google. Google recently allowed its users to not only create a profile page but to link to their online profiles, thus letting google consolidate public profiles to single identities. http://www.wire...oogle-wants-yo/

By: bigant

bigant — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:16:00 +0000

Hey Mike, do you have any personal stake in WhitePages.com? If you do, wouldn’t it be good journalism to disclose it? Either way, you have written more negative articles about their competitors than you have against just about any other company…

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By: alex

alex — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:31:36 +0000

hmm – dont you think you should change your spock traffic spike to be a bit more accurate? it’s seem to be really bad reporting on your part techcrunch.

take a look at alexa.
http://alexa.co....com+kosmix.com

spock has more traffic then a9, cuil, kosmix, and powerset combined!

really poor for techcrunch to show “google searches” for the term spock as opposed to traffic metrics like comscore or alexa. looks like you are trying to mislead users to believe something to not be true.

By: James

James — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:19:34 +0000

They should sell if they can’t sustain the business financially of course. I liked spock, but it seemed just a little dull. There was no difference in reading Donald Trump on spock than on wikipedia. Wikipedia was more personal and up-to-date.

By: sfltv.com

sfltv.com — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:08:44 +0000

white pages is alright
but it’s like one big giant ad for premium services, which is somewhat understandable

now, when do we get to delete our own data from these services?

By: Spock To Be Beamed Up By Intelius? ~ Web Developers

Spock To Be Beamed Up By Intelius? ~ Web Developers — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:03:03 +0000

[...] seems to think so. And because of this, we find that Spock is in a really lousy position. Even if the rumors are true, Intelius does indeed end up buying them up, who cares? I have tested it on a number of times only [...]

By: EH

EH — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:20:25 +0000

you left out the part where people don’t use whitepages. seo only counts for search results and 200MM sounds a little to me like you lose on the “opt-in” factor that FB and LI have going for them. frankly, i put whitepages in the “nabble” bucket of meaningless search cruft and therefore plainly look right past them/you.

By: lilywhite

lilywhite — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:42:32 +0000

people don’t really find the whitepages.com site very credible. Whenever I accidentally land on it I jump off as soon as humanly possible.

By: John Lusk

John Lusk — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:10:31 +0000

“People search, it seems, will be dominated by the likes of LinkedIn and Facebook, who are both now being smart about search engine optimization”

With over 200M people in our database and ridiculous success with our SEO efforts, I’m surprised that WhitePages isn’t mentioned as a potential ‘dominator’ of People Search.

Sad to see Spock meeting its end. Smart folks down there who will no doubt make waves in the future.

By: Sarah Meyers

Sarah Meyers — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:57:12 +0000

don’t do it Spock. life’s too short.

By: joemama

joemama — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:19:30 +0000

yawn… Mike you’ve seriously got to get a hobby…

By: Shawn Drewry

Shawn Drewry — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:33:03 +0000

Where’s Captain kirk? LOL

By: Sachin

Sachin — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:10:03 +0000

nice mention of spocksoon ..lol