Put Spock to Work
If you haven’t tapped into the hot search spot known as “Spock” you’re really missing out on a cool way to find people and things you’re looking for. Spock is not like most search engines in that it doesn’t simply return a dry list of text links.
Say you use a keyword search to look for web design or a web designer. Hit enter and Spock bring up a list of people - with their photos when available - and all of the links associated to each person. It will show you their community links like LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter and their professional links like their education, affiliations and associations they belong to.
Spock also lets you create widgets of your searches that you can embed in your own pages or blog posts. This adds cool functionality to your site, allowing you to offer information for other searchers. Spock is still in beta but it works without a hitch. It’s definitely not a “bares bones” beta, as you can see from the widget of my search result below:
Spock’s search engine allows you to search people by their names, by tags related to their work or profession, and - this is really cool - by their email address. Try that with Google and see how far you get. You get a document not found message. Once you register with Spock (don’t worry, it’s free and easy) and try the same search you will find what and who you are looking for.
But enough from me. You’ll only get the full flavor of Spock.com by checking it out yourself. You don’t even have to register to do great searches, but once you do you can access even more features. Enjoy your search for a change. You will find what you need - and, dare I say it - “prosper”?