Spock - the people search engine
Spock, the new people search engine, which claims to already have over 100 million people indexed in its databases, has been opened to public a few days ago.
Spock lets you find informations about a specific person by just typing his or her name, e-mail or location, and filter the results by age, gender or by availablity of a picture. Data is gathered automatically by an algorithm and may come from many services, like online encyclopedias or social networking websites.
The interesting thing is that you can also search people by tags - type in “digg” to get Digg employees and users, or “linux kernel hacker” to find scary guys with long beards ;-).
Even though I couldn’t find any data about myself (I guess I’d have to go by my real name more often), I think Spock is a very good attempt on developing a people search engine. Obviously it’s a handy tool, but it’s actually pretty fun to play with at the same time.
Will it become the Google of people search?
