{"id":316,"date":"2007-08-09T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2007\/08\/spock-does-people-search.html"},"modified":"2007-08-09T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T20:24:00","slug":"spock-does-people-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/spock-does-people-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Spock does people search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"articletext\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spock.com\/\">Spock<\/a> debuted yesterday and it looks pretty cool. It\u2019s a search engine for people.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>Queries return only results about people, and the depth of those results is impressive.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>I searched on my own name and found a listing with my correct age, a biography snipped from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/\">LinkedIn<\/a>, a photo and tags related to my interests and background. I could claim the bio, if I wanted, and add to it, kind of like a public Facebook profile. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"articletext\"><span style=\"\">A search <\/span>on &#8220;1967 Red Sox&#8221; turned up dozens of mini biographies of players and fans from that year, all with similar  elements.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"articletext\">In some ways, the service is like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zoominfo.com\/\">ZoomInfo<\/a>\u2019s People Search feature, but the two sites are oriented very differently.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>Spock returns only information about people, whereas ZoomInfo is aimed at business research. I think specialized search is going to be a big business and this is an interesting new entry.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"articletext\">Warning: the site was experiencing a lot of technical problems today and was only sporadically available.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spock debuted yesterday and it looks pretty cool. It\u2019s a search engine for people. Queries return only results about people, and the depth of those results is impressive. I searched on my own name and found a listing with my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/spock-does-people-search\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-56","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}