New way to search for information on people...

When I first read about Spock and how you can search for information on people and politicians in certain categories, one example would be Presidential candidates who are Pro-Choice, it sounded like an interesting website to check out. They even offer the ability to put a widget on your site for a search:



I'm far from famous but I wondered what would happen when I searched me, so that's what I did, and then I created a profile which took only a few moments to create. I then discovered that there was the ability to add a mini version of my Spock.com profile on any of my blogs that I wanted to.

You also have the ability to add your Linked in profile and search out friends. That seems to be a fun additional benefit of using Spock, though for me the main reason would be to have another resource to find out information on public officials/candidates. You can search by name or by tag, and as with the example above if you wanted to search in tags for "Presidential candidates democrat" using Spock.com you'd find a list of 41 names and also be able to add a widget for that particular search term as well.

Since promoting blogging is something that I'm really into, if I wanted to display a widget of Ohio bloggers on my sidebar, it would be possible to highlight all of those within Spock who are tagged "Ohio blogger". I saw some familiar faces which was fun and a few new people which was informative.



I do recommend checking out Spock.com to find information on the famous and to find information on the not so famous.

:-)