Searching for information of people
Have you heard of Spock.com - The Best Way to Search People ?
Spock is site that allows you to search for information about people. You can find information and links to more information about your favorite authors, celebrities, authors, musicians, places, or countries or a whole lot of things for you can think of, by just simply creating a search.
On the Spock.com homepage, you can just type in the name of a person to start the search, then you might continue the search for more information by clicking on the “tag” that might have been placed on the listed information. A tag could be the type of industry the person works in, the event he was involved with and so on.
Really the best way to tell you about Spock is to show you how it works. I signed up at Spock in order to access the sites full features. Did I mention that Spock is completely free to use?
If you have been reading this blog, you know we don’t have a TV at home and I enjoy reading more than watching TV. My all time favorite authors are Mark Twain and Earnest Hemingway. I like most of the books they wrote equally, but I decided to just do a search for Earnest Hemingway.
Earnest Hemingway came out the first on the first page of results, mostly were individual listings for people who had the word “Hemingway” associated with them. For example, I found Mariel Hemingway came out third on the list, apparently she is Earnest Hemingway’s granddaughter and is an actress.
I decided to narrow down my search by clicking on the tag within the listing for Hemingway. I clicked on the tag “from Oak Park, IL”. This gave me one page of results with 5 more listings for Earnest Hemingway. Ha, I didn’t know he was born in Oak Park, IL, may be we can visit his old home when I am moving to IL next spring!
Beside this listing there’s a series of tags that have been left by other Spock members. Some of the tags lead to other writers, poets, world world I, American expatriate in Paris and “The lost generation“.
If you knew something that suited the listing, you can easily add a tag of your own by clicking on the “add tag” link underneath each listings tag area. Site members can click on the little arrow beside each search result tag in order to vote yes or no as to whether the tag is appropriate for the listing.
You will see a short description beside each search result, as well as links for the full tag listing, photos, related people and news. Below that you’ll find links to web pages or Wiki pages that have information about each search result. Well, a simple search could lead you to a journey of exploring on Spock or send you into the Web for more relevant information or set you into “Information overload” mode, ha, ha.
What else can you do with the search result? Well, you can email the results to yourself or to someone else who might be interested in the information that you found, or you can click on the word “text” and convert the listed result into a simple list that only includes a link to the information page for each search result on Spock. That’s a useful research tool!
There is one thing that you might want to try if you’d like to share the information that you found on your blogs. You can create a widget in order to show you search results within a blog post. When you click on Widget you’ll be taken to a page where you can get the code for a flash or a javascript widget.
