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 ...

I caught up with Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media at TiECon 2007, where he spoke about Web 2.0 and chaired a panel discussion on Web 2.0 with Navin Ashwin of BitTorrent; Alex Welch of Photobucket and Jaideep Singh of Spock. In this interview we talk extensively about Web ...

The first amendment has always been nettlesome, but a thriving online community of bloggers is proof that excercising constitutional freedoms can be healthy and profitable. Blogs they also have a tendency to rock the boat, raising new challenges for corporations — and the courts — to navigate. This case began ...