Spock
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I’ve seen the word Spock lately on a number of blogs and today finally decided to see what it was all about for myself.
Spock is a search engine for searching people. Behind the scenes, Spock’s technology scours the web and collects information on people. It tags them all of the people based on what it finds. On the user side, users can tag people, as well as add pictures, links and information. Information can be voted on, the more votes the more credible the information. Users can search for people by name or they can search by tag to find others with common tags. Once you find the person you’re looking for, you may see photos of them, as well as related links, news, their relatives and other tags they’ve been given.
I searched my favorite Nascar driver, Rusty Wallace. I got back a list of results that included Rusty Wallace the racecar driver, other people named Rusty Wallace and other people tagged with Rusty Wallace. You’ll have a pretty good idea if you’ve found what you’re looking for by glancing at the brief description or if there’s a picture. In the case of my search, the first result was all information about Rusty Wallace from reputable places. I’ve included a screenshot of the Rusty Wallace page below. When you find what you’re looking for, you can even turn it into a widget you can easily put onto your own website. I’ve pasted a Rusty Wallace widget here, it was made with a single click of the mouse right from my search result page.
It’s quite interesting to click around and see who’s related to who. Go try it!
December 31st, 2007 at 8:46 pm
hey - thanks for the nice write-up about Spock. Hopefully we will make it a even better application in 2008.
January 1st, 2008 at 12:07 pm
You’re welcome! I had fun with it.