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Mar 29

Most-Searched Celebs and More with Spokeo!

by Patrick

If you’ve looked at our ridiculously-cool new homepage recently you may have noticed some famous faces towards the bottom. These are a randomly-selected  group of the most-searched celebs on Spokeo. Checking out the list and clicking on their profiles – where you can see recent news, photos and more – is a great way to see who [...]

Posted in Arts & Entertainment, News Flash, People Search

Mar 12

Top 10 People Searches – February 2012

by Katie

February is over and we’ve leaped into March. Check out the top people searches: 10. Jeremy Lin – There’s a good chance that you’ve heard of Jeremy Lin, the point guard for the New York Knicks, whether you’re a sports fan or not. Are you a fan of Lin? You can now taste the lin-sanity. 9. Laura [...]

Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Inside Spokeo, People Search

Feb 14

Top 10 People Searches – January 2012

by Katie

It’s a new year, and a new list! Check it out: 10. Tim Tebow - Tim Tebow is the starting quarterback for the Denver Broncos of the NFL. He is known for kneeling down to pray after a touchdown, an act now called “Tebowing.” Learn how to properly perform the action of Tebowing, and check out those who [...]

Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Inside Spokeo, People Search

Feb 08

Keep Track of Celeb Whereabout​s With Spokeo’s ‘Recently Spotted’ Feature!

by Patrick

  You may have noticed that we’ve been blogging a lot about our huge, new Famous Person search feature, which allows you to search the name of any famous person, living or dead, and quickly get tons of information (bio/timeline, news, photos, videos etc.). It’s an exciting addition to our people search site, and we’ve [...]

Posted in Arts & Entertainment, People Search, Tech Watch

Jan 27

Life Story: Spokeo’s Famous Person Timeline

by Patrick

By now you may have heard that Facebook will be switching all profiles over to their “Timeline” view in the coming weeks. It’s a big change, and, like every other big change on Facebook, one that’s guaranteed to draw the ire of tons of users (until they get used to the feature and forget about [...]

Posted in People Search, Tech Watch

Jan 20

Are You Stuck in an Internet Echo Chamber?

by Patrick

Have you ever logged-in to Amazon.com and looked through a list of recommendations? “A Savage Garden CD…Pleather Moon Boots…a DVD copy of Leprechaun: In The Hood (starring Ice-T)!? It’s like they know me! Well, that’s because they do know you to some extent; websites like Amazon or Facebook create algorithms based on user-preferences and behavior [...]

Posted in Good Reads, People Search, Tech Watch

Jan 10

Top 10 People Searches – December 2011

by Katie

2011 finished strong for Spokeo, so let’s see who finished strong as the top people searches of December. 10. Miley Cyrus – MTV’s Punk’d is returning and Miley will serve as one of the guest hosts. See her punk Khloe Kardashian Odom here. 9. Harry Burkhart – Harry Burkhart has been charged with setting a [...]

Posted in Arts & Entertainment, Inside Spokeo, People Search

Jan 05

Introducing Spokeo Reverse Address Search

by Patrick

Well, 2012 is finally here, and as I promised in our year-in-review blog from last week, it’s going to be a big year for us at Spokeo. Such a big year, in fact, that we’re only 5 days in and I already have a big new feature to tell you about! Spokeo offers multiple ways [...]

Posted in Inside Spokeo, New Products, People Search

Dec 30

2011 Year in Review

by Patrick

Happy New Years, everybody! I hope you all are having a joyful holiday season. We here at Spokeo are enjoying the holidays, as well as taking a look back at a wonderful year. 2011 was certainly the most eventful year in Spokeo history, with redesigns, tweaks, improvements and fun new features galore. Let us count [...]

Posted in Inside Spokeo, People Search, Tech Watch

Dec 14

Introducing Spokeo Famous People Search!

by Patrick

Spokeo is the leader in cutting-edge people search technology. It’s no exagerration to say that our name search, reverse email search, reverse phone search and username search capabilities help millions of people every day, by locating and connecting friends, family and acquaintances online and off. While we all have someone we’re looking for, research shows [...]

Posted in Arts & Entertainment, New Products, News Flash, People Search, Tech Watch

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