Not Another Search Engine…
In a world of search engines clearly dominated by Google, is there any place left for new search engines?
Does the huge amount of money that revolves around this business is way too powerful?
If the answer to the former question can be debated, I think that there’s no doubt about the latter one. I guess that it’s everybody’s dream to start a small business on the Internet and grow it up to the point of surpassing Google’s owners Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Obviously, this will not going to happen because they won’t just sit and watch without doing anything against it. In a happy scenario, they could buy your business and you would be content with less than dreamed of, but definitely a lot higher than the vast majority of us.
Among those who are taking a chance in the search engines field are two co-founders of Spock.com - Jay Bhatti and Jaideep Singh – former employees of Microsoft and IBM. As if it hadn’t been sufficient, there are also ex-Yahoo employees in the Spock team which tells a lot about the people behind this website.
Spock is a free people and information search application. Either you are searching for celebrities, your favorite athletes or your neighbors and friends, Spock provides links to where they are on the web. You can search by name, email, age, sex, location, tags (like brown eyes, soccer player, funny etc.) in every combination you like. These tags can be created by that person or by other Spock members. Opinions can be voiced about a person by voting for or against a tag (this includes pictures as well). You can also trim down the results by asking for a picture in the person’s profile.
You can sign up for an account and start adding information about you and don’t forget to invite your friends – they can contribute to enriching your profile as well. Additionally, Spock will search for information about you on bio pages, social networks, news sites, blogs, directories etc.
I tried it myself with “search engine” and here are the results from Spock:
Tags:business , google , ibm , Internet , microsoft , Money , yahooPopularity: 7% [?]
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I have heard of Spock; a friend recommended it. I will try it but i think i am too much of a google loyalist.