Spock is a search engine that won’t compete with Google, except in one area: searching personal information about people. Want to find an old friend? Look up a job candidate’s background? Find a person’s blog or other social networking page? Then Spock is for you. Here, we meet Jay ...

One of the more talked about valley start-ups in recent months is Spock. Founded in 2006 by Jay Bhatti and Jaideep Singh, Spock is a people search Web site that aims to be the most comprehensive source of information about just about anyone. Spock crawls the Web looking for ...