spock me!
In case you missed it, there’s a new search engine service out there. It launched as a live public beta on Wednesday, August 8, 2007. Oddly enough, it’s called Spock. It’s a people-based search engine.
It uses information from profiles on social networking sites, including MySpace, Friendster, Facebook and LinkedIn, so you can find out about even those who have not yet found Spock: Spock Search Tommy Duncan Tampa. In addition, Spock allows users to edit and add their own information to the search results. Spock claims they have already indexed around 100m people, and is adding a million names every day.
You can “tag” people you find on the service to make searches easier. I am finding folks I know and tagging them. I have even found a few people from high school using Spock. Since it indexes multiple social network sites, it was a breeze to use.
So far, personally, I have had a ball consolidating all my crap on the web into one place. It is not without issues. I am sure it’s just the fact that it is new. Digg/Slashdot effect, probably. Despite the numerous 500 and 503 errors, and the nondescript “Uh-Oh” errors on some functions, Spock has been pretty cool. I spent the better part of the morning consolidating all my online presence into one place on Spock.
Spock users can “claim” their name and upload pictures, friend others etc., all of which will affect the search results tied to their name. All this makes Spock a very interesting mix between a search engine and social networking tool. The only thing I have not been able to do is claim my LinkedIn profile. I put in the correct login information, it just cannot seem to connect.
So feel free to “Spock Me” I made a link to my Spock profile. Try it, it’s actually pretty cool. Anything named “Spock” has got to be cool.
Linkage:
Daves’ Spock Profile
Spock Website
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February 11th, 2008 at 11:18 am
You can “spock me” too if you like!
I think it won’t be long before SPOCK becomes a verb like “googling yourself” — to spock someone is either to look someone up on spock, or to tag someone on spock as is:
You’ve been spocked! can mean: someone added tags to you on spock, or that spock has a profile on you.
Kenneth Udut
http://www.spock.com/Kenneth-Udut-zeeIb1Ou