I’ve mentioned Spock a couple of times, if you’re not familiar it’s a new “people” based search which crawls web-sites and social networking site to build a comprehensive picture of people.  If you haven’t checked it out, it’s worth a look.

I recently wanted to get back in touch with an old friend who had moved and whose details I’d misplaced.  The white pages were no help — over 100 matches in N.S.W alone.  Spock on the other hand lead me straight to her linked in profile and there was sufficient information their to ascertain that she was exactly the person I was after.

It lead me to two conclusions:

1. Spock is getting it right — it was the location that helped me find the person I was after.
2. There are still a heck of a lot of people (100+ in one state for one name match alone) who still have no profile on the Internet.

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