Spock - People Search Engine
Thursday, 31. January 2008, 19:00:41
http://www.spock.com/! When I saw this link i thought its definitely something that has to do with Star Trek. Sorry to say but it is something compleetly different. The name Spock is explained with a backcronym: "single point of contact (by) keyword". Actualy it is search engine something like Google only Spock is specialized for people search.
It is founded in 2006 by Jay Bhatti and Jaideep Singh, and since then, Spock indexed over 100 million people. Spock find records from publicly available sources like Myspace, Hi5, Friendster, Wikipedia and some other community driven web sites. Spock project is curently in Beta but i decided to try it.
First i tried to search my name
. I thought - my name is on plenty places on internet so why not to try. Nothing came up 
, I am not popular enough...
Second search i tried is "Albert Einstein" http://www.spock.com/q/albert-einstein. First result was Bingo
Results that came has everything needed. Few pictures, short bigraphy, related peoples, user tags, and most relevant pages about Albert Einstein. Then i tried Jaime Presley http://www.spock.com/q/jaime-presley. I accidentaly misspeled her name, and i got completly wrong data. I did not liked fact that Spock did not suggest me new spelling. This will be probably most freqent error that someone from non-english speaking territory will do. Doing the searches i noticed that Spock is little slow but beacuse this is beta its understandable. Also great thing on Spock is that your search cab be inserted in other pages, blogs, forums... They have some sort of widget and when you click on it, you get the code. This looks like this:
.
Next good thing is that when you do search and find people who you looking for and there is no enough information you can simply add pictures, news, tags. Its funny that when you find some people tagged example as terrorist or idiots, you can click on desired tag and find more of these. To tag people insert images or anything similar you must be logged in, and registration is of course free. I did not liked fact that some spam catchers look on emails from Spock as a spam, so check your spam filters.
Spock.com - the best people search on the Web. Try it.
It is founded in 2006 by Jay Bhatti and Jaideep Singh, and since then, Spock indexed over 100 million people. Spock find records from publicly available sources like Myspace, Hi5, Friendster, Wikipedia and some other community driven web sites. Spock project is curently in Beta but i decided to try it.
First i tried to search my name
. I thought - my name is on plenty places on internet so why not to try. Nothing came up , I am not popular enough...Second search i tried is "Albert Einstein" http://www.spock.com/q/albert-einstein. First result was Bingo
Results that came has everything needed. Few pictures, short bigraphy, related peoples, user tags, and most relevant pages about Albert Einstein. Then i tried Jaime Presley http://www.spock.com/q/jaime-presley. I accidentaly misspeled her name, and i got completly wrong data. I did not liked fact that Spock did not suggest me new spelling. This will be probably most freqent error that someone from non-english speaking territory will do. Doing the searches i noticed that Spock is little slow but beacuse this is beta its understandable. Also great thing on Spock is that your search cab be inserted in other pages, blogs, forums... They have some sort of widget and when you click on it, you get the code. This looks like this:
.
Next good thing is that when you do search and find people who you looking for and there is no enough information you can simply add pictures, news, tags. Its funny that when you find some people tagged example as terrorist or idiots, you can click on desired tag and find more of these
. To tag people insert images or anything similar you must be logged in, and registration is of course free. I did not liked fact that some spam catchers look on emails from Spock as a spam, so check your spam filters.Spock.com - the best people search on the Web. Try it.
