Briefs: Say Hello to Spock (People Search); Ask and Dell Go Green; Web Search Privacy Report
+ Spock: Search's final frontier? (via News.com)
Reminds us of equal parts Wink and ZoomInfo.
See Also: Gigaom on Spock Search With the understanding that this is a beta and of course, with any dbase, caveat emptor.
Note from Gary: First, Spock lists one related person, Renee Blodgett, as my wife. Yes, I just got married but Renee is or has never been my wife. :-) Second, I work at Ask.com NOT Ask Jeeves. Jeeves retired about 18 months ago. Third, with all of the pages Spock has crawled, you would figure that the bio of the Librarian FourthSpeaker of the U.S. House, Dennis Hastert, has four separate entries, one of them is tagged :-), "A few extra pounds." Sergey Brin has two entries. Fifth: A search for Steve Ballmer from Microsoft leads us to the tags, "mad man" and "monkey dance." It's also worth noting that there are two entries for Ballmer.
Finally, the entry for Barry Bonds. No related entries? How about all of the players he has played against? How about his father, a former major leaguer? How about is godfather, Willie Mays?
UPDATE: As someone pointed out to me this evening, I'm fortunate to have an entry in Marquis Who's Who. That entry mentions that I am married and does offer, correctly, my wife's name.
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