Spock is a search engine start-up. It searches for people data:

“Menlo Park Calif.-based Spock Inc. scours sites such as News Corp.’s MySpace, Wikipedia, LinkedIn and Yahoo Inc.’s Flickr and compiles biographies of real people — alive, dead, famous or obscure, from New York to New Delhi.

Results often include an individual’s photo, age, job title, political or religious affiliations and research papers or articles written…”

Link: Online startup Spock focuses search on people

This is another reason to use the privacy settings on sites like Facebook. Sites like Spock will make sure that moments of impulsiveness, on social network sites, will live on and on… ‘fame’ on the Internet is not fifteen minutes.

Catherine Forsythe

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