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Redwood City, CA - March 4, 2008 - Spock, the leading people search engine, announced today the winners of the Spock Challenge. A six-person team of researchers, faculty and students from Germany's Bauhaus University Weimar were awarded the $50,000 grand prize.
Flashback information.
Spock is the first editable search engine for finding people on the Internet. Today, voting on Spock tags is easier than ever! Next to the name on each search result on Spock, there is a link to vote on that person’s tags. Remember, voting expresses your own opinion on the relevance and accuracy of information on Spock, so, by placing a vote, it pushes up or down the ranking of the tag within the individual’s page. Voting on tags also helps determine the proper ranking of that person. For example, if you vote “yes” for Steve Carell being funny, http://www.spock.com/Steve-Carell/tags/vote/funny , he will then get placed higher in the search results when someone searches for “funny”. If a tag has only a single vote and you vote “No,” the tag will be flushed off the search results.
More details on Spock.com.
Whether its celebrities, friends, or interesting people you'd like to meet, Spock finds them. They use a combination of search engine technologies and user edits to aggregate the world's people information and make it searchable. Spock finds all kinds of information like websites, photos, videos, and blogs about people. Go ahead and search for someone, you might be surprised at what you'll find.
General overview.
Founded in 2006 by Jay Bhatti and Jaideep Singh, Spock is a people search engine that organizes information around people to enable discovery and learning. With the vision of indexing everyone in the world, Spock is adding millions of people to its index everyday through its search engine technology and through community contribution. Spock is located in Silicon Valley and funded by leading venture capital firms.
