Sunday, November 18, 2007

Spock.com

One of the biggest markets in the internet arena is searching. As the network grows day after day more and more information gets dumped on the internet and it becomes impossible for us to find what we need. Generally there are quite a good number of search engines which will help you to find the necessary information which you want from the internet. Most of the times what we search for is textual information, images, e books, tutorials and what not on earth. There are also many tactics which can be involved to make the search more effective.

Have you ever tried to find out people on the internet. Yup! I definitely agree it is not a piece of cake to find some information about the person who sat in your next cubicle during your third month of training in your second company! Who cares about that person now! But if you want to get some information about your favorite movie stars, the television serial star whom you hated to the core or your long lost friends and others. Spock seems to a very good resource which will help you to connect with the information which you have been searching.

Spock.com is a people search application and it is not a mere social networking web site. The interface and the working mechanism of Spock are pretty simple. It provides the related links from around the web about the person whom you are searching. It indexes data from various points in the web such as social networks, directories, blogs, news sites and many more and serves as a single point of contact which is also the abbreviation of Spock. The site has indexed over 100 million people in the internet and accounts that more than 30% of the searches that are made are generally people related.

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