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Thanks to D. for his submission on ways that he uses Spokeo! You will be receiving your special gift shortly. And now, without further ado, here is his winning entry.   How I Spokeo 1. To look up people who are potential employers / employees 2. To find old school / college / work friends [...]

We want to know: How have you been using Spokeo? Whether you’re a casual browser or a Premium subscriber, you can enter to win these magnetic desk dots to store pictures, cards, notes and more!  We’ll also send you a special, Spokeo promotional item. Check the desk dots in action here!  Post your story in [...]

        Just a quick update! Street addresses are no longer available under our public search. As you know, we always consider your feedback when updating our site so we can make your user experience more enjoyable.  Please continue providing us with your comments and suggestions as we work to grow together!  

We are now number 9 on Google for the query "people search"! With our unique aggregation of all the various social networking sites your contacts frequent, Spokeo is among the most powerful people search engines available on the Internet. If you aren’t a Premium member yet, check out some of our plan rates to further [...]

We have A LOT of traffic right now.  Just in the past hour, Spokeo became the 60th most popular search term on Google.  We are inundated with emails and phone calls, which come in every 10 seconds or so.  Before this traffic surge, we picked up every call and replied back to everyone within 3 [...]

We are going to upgrade our servers and back-end infrastructure at midnight of 10/14/2009.  If everything goes all right, we should be back up within 1 hour around 1am PST.  Thank you for your patience and support!

The new Spokeo people search is coming in three weeks.  We’ve been working on the Spokeo 3.0 for couple months already, and now we are finally ready to release the first wave of new changes.  The above is an exclusive preview of the new Spokeo search interface.  As you can see, Spokeo search will now [...]

For the past year, we have been focusing on scaling and increasing Spokeo’s back-end performance.  These technical improvements definitely don’t sound or look sexy since normal users cannot tell if anything has been changed.  However, these works are required for accommodating the increasing amount of new users.  The fact that Spokeo still runs very fast [...]

Last Thursday afternoon, we made the biggest change in our infrastructure and moved all our servers to a new data center.  After 12 hours of continuous work, we have successfully pushed Spokeo back online.  While this transition looks smooth and without hiccups on the surface, there were actually some problems underneath (unsurprisingly for this kind [...]

We are moving!  We have outgrown our current data center, so we are moving our servers to a new location on Thursday, 1/22/2009.  Spokeo.com will be offline for several hours while we move, so please bear with us while we find a better home for Spokeo.  Spokeo is expected to go back up at the [...]