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Spock: First Impressions

I received an invitation to Spock.com this morning and I decided to try it out. Spock presents itself as being the people search engine, but it has a lot of work before it reaches that feat. Search results are created by the users you are searching for and consists of some tags, a couple of websites, and a picture (yeah, that’s pretty much it).

The most prevalent problem with Spock is speed. Navigating around the site leads to multiple timeouts and errors, which makes Spock almost unusable.

For Spock.com to become more popular it will need to add features that traditional search engines don’t have because at the moment Google does a better job (and it’s much faster).

Those who are still interested in Spock, especially after such a negative post, can email me (at mail@r3fresh.com, including your name) to get an invite. I have two invites left, first come, first serve!