Spock was a U.S. search website specialized in finding people; also known as a vertical search engine or entity search engine. The name "Spock" is a backronym: "single point of contact (by) keyword." Founded in 2006 by Jay Bhatti and Jaideep Singh, it "indexed over 250 million people representing over 1.5 billion data records." These records were from publicly available sources, including Wikipedia, IMDb, ESPN, LinkedIn, Hi5, MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, corporate biographies, university faculty and staff pages, real estate agents sites, school alumni and member directory pages, etc. The company maintained that "30% of all Internet searches are people-related". More information...
According to PR-model, spock.com is ranked 273,649th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 202,012th in English Wikipedia.
The website is placed before jeudegolf.org and after windsorscottish.com in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
