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Ever heard of Spock?

Well, it is search engine for people!!! There has been quite a buzz about it lately. It is still in beta version but it has already began to spread its popularity on the web with its rich feature set and social aspects.

There are four things that makes their approach special:

• The person-centric perspective of a query
• Rich set of attributes that characterize people (geography, birthday, occupation, etc.)
• Usage of tags as links or relationships between people (friend, foe, son, daughter,etc.)
• Self-correcting mechanism via user feedback loop

My Spock Profile:

By the way, the co-founders of spock are Jaideep Singh and Jay Bhatti. Take a look at their profiles…

I personally think that this search engine is the future. Just Imagine how valuable information could be obtained. Just Imagine. A new dimension to the internet….Lovely…

Currently, spock.com has a google rank of 5…It is just a matter of time that it will attain level 10!!!

What next ?

We could be witnessing a Google vs Spock!!!!
There are lots of differences about the functioning of these two. For example, when Google looks at a web page, it doesn’t care what the document is about. All it cares about is whether the document has the relevant keyword that you’ve searched for. When Spock builds up a search, it has to care about whether it’s about a person, and, if it is a person, what’s relevant, and what are all the keywords about that person. So the technology and the algorithms for what we do are totally different from Google’s.

Let’s wait n watch…
Don’t forget to register there as soon as possible

Useful Links:
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/article.php/3684341
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/spock_vertical_search_done_right.php