Spokeo Mobile hits the web

Spokeo is something called a “social network aggregator” software that can gather people-related information from a great variety of sources – such as phone directories, social networks, mailing lists and so on. All information gathered by Spokeo is publicly available online, so the information gathered contains only what the person willingly shares.

Spokeo was launched in 2006 by a bunch of Stanford graduates as a social network aggregator that would allow people to keep track of their friends’ updates on multiple social networks. Later it was redesigned into a user search engine. After a few years and the fourth redesign of the site it was criticized for offering credit ratings not controlled by the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

Spokeo offers free services for finding out basic information about anybody present online, and premium services such as e-mail and phone number search.

Spokeo Mobile, the super-fast mobile version of the site was released today. It works in the exact same way the normal version does, but it’s super fast. Users visiting the Spokeo website using smartphones will be redirected to the mobile version of the web page.