Spock, a people search website, was launched

Spock.com, a new search engine, officially launched its beta version in the United States on Wednesday. The search engine can find information about people on social networking sites like MySpace.com and Friendster.

Jaideep Singh, co-founder and chief executive of Spock.com, said it was the largest application in the digital space to date, capable of searching people on email contact lists, search engines like Google or social networking sites like Facebook. A person's characteristics are distributed across thousands of such applications. We look at the public web and we build a search application that helps people quickly find someone and find a comprehensive profile of that person.

Singh said the search engine currently has 100 million names and will include every person in the world in nine months. The search results will include a resume, such as age, city where you live, job title, etc., along with a caption and a photo to provide a complete picture of the person. The search engine will rank the search results according to the relevant information.

This site allows users to update information and may be helpful for finding business and personal contacts with multiple parameters. For example, Singh said, a user could search for a venture capitalist who likes golf and lives in San Francisco Bay, or find a web developer who does research in a specific subject at a specific university and lives in a specific city.

Singh stressed that the search engine only searches for personal information that people themselves have made public online. Details such as phone numbers and home addresses are removed from Spock's website. 'If you don't collect publicly available information, you're invading privacy,' he said. Spock is no different from Google. We only index information that people themselves have made public.