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> Spock aims to refine people searches (AP via Yahoo! News), Humans "highly illogical," claims famous Trekkie icon
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post Wed 18th July 2007, 8:55pm
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A search engine startup promises to deliver more targeted results on queries about people, whether it's your ex-girlfriend, the guy from the bar last night, or Paris Hilton. The idea is to help you avoid sorting through the thousands of results - the vast majority likely to be irrelevant Web pages - delivered by the major Internet search companies. Menlo Park-based Spock Inc. scours sites such as ...

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Instead of Googling people you know, now you can Spock them.

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A search engine startup promises to deliver more targeted results on queries about people, whether it's your ex-girlfriend, the guy from the bar last night, or Paris Hilton.

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A search engine startup promises to deliver more targeted results on queries about people, whether it's your ex-girlfriend, the guy from the bar last night, or Paris Hilton.

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The soon-to-be-public search engine declares it's now clear that social networks can help organize the world's information and make it personally accessible and useful.

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