Imagine a typical Friday night out with the girls, dancing and laughing, having a grand time. Across the dance floor, you spot Mr. Wonderful and he’s spotted you too. Before you know it, you’ve exchanged phone numbers with the promise of a romantic dinner. You make your way back to your friends, still glowing with [...]

We may be a little biased here at Spokeo, but we’re pretty proud of our product and we know it’s a very useful research tool. Recently we were reminded of one more way to use Spokeo – as a tool to verify news stories on the web. With the rise of social media come many [...]

Helen was only 15 years old in April of 1992 when she gave birth to a healthy baby boy. At the time she was living with her parents in the Cleveland, Ohio area and the baby was given up for adoption but she never forgot about that little boy. Meanwhile, one loving family had been [...]

A self-described “accidental search angel,” Kellie knows what it feels like to be disconnected and reunited with a loved one.   At 17, she was forced to give up her baby girl. Soon thereafter, Kellie began her search which continued for 23 and-a-half years. While taking breaks from her own search, Kellie would help other people [...]

It’s spring cleaning time, so why not consider cleaning up your digital address book?  If it seems too daunting to find updated contact information, we’re going to share a cool tool to assist you:  Email Search.  Spokeo’s email search makes it easy to find virtually anyone via email as long as the email account holder [...]

With the recent introduction of our Search Angels program video on our community site  and the announcement about Spokeo’s Search Angel award and winners, we asked Priscilla Sharp, a member of the Spokeo Search Angels Advisory Committee, and a search angel herself, to share some thoughts about how to get involved and what searching on behalf [...]

Last Saturday, a few of Spokeo’s talented developers donated their morning to teaching Pasadena youngsters about the basics of coding. It was a fun-filled morning complete with robots, pizza and a tour of our bacon-themed conference room! Head on over to our community site for more photos and details about this great day of fun [...]

If you’ve been a regular visitor of the Spokeo Blog, you’ve probably noticed a growing number of posts about our latest community efforts. From our Holiday Toy Drive, to the Spokeo Search Angel Awards and even our Coder Dojo computer programming workshop for kids, you can tell that Spokeo isn’t only committed to providing the [...]

By now, you probably know how proud we are of the five Spokeo Search Angel Award winners! A couple of weeks ago, we were lucky enough to be able to gather four out of the five winners in Cleveland at the American Adoption Congress (AAC) International Conference on Adoption. We’re inspired daily by the stories [...]

The recent “Educate to Innovate” call from the White House has prompted the nation to improve the participation and performance of America’s students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Spokeo boasts a team of extremely talented STEM professionals doing what we can to promote the next fleet of engineers. Remember our engineer themed toy-drive? [...]