People search engine tested
A new search engine that specialises in online people searches is attracting 30,000 new users a week during its beta testing period.
Spock, as it is known, trawls all publicly available data on the web from sites such as News Corp, MySpace, Wikipedia, Flickr and LinkedIn, to return results on people arranged into biographies. It searches for anyone from old school buddies and ex-neighbours to sports stars and celebrities.
Jaidepp Sing, chief executive of Spock, said: “Thirty per cent of all internet searches are people related. We have created the most relevant, accurate, and largest search application focused on people.
“To date we have indexed over 100 million people representing over 1.5 billion data records. We plan to eventually index everyone in the world.”
Users are able to add feedback and correct or update information returned by searches. They can add pictures, write descriptions and add tags to profiles for search engine optimisation.
