Have you heard of the people search engine called Spock?

[thewayne]

You might want to look up your name on it. They stealthily got a bunch of MySpace users to fill out a sniglets-like app and it then used their responses to populate profiles on their search engine.

Frighteningly, it had a lot of entries for my name, none of them me. But the first response was someone in Phoenix that had some scary associations with my past, none of which actually connected to me: this guy is a car painter apparently.

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/news/2007/08/spock_reputation

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[fastlearner.livejournal.com]

First thing I did when I heard of it was look myself up, and was happy to find that the real me wasn't there.

My daughter's there, though, and I learned something about her I didn't know, something pretty personal. Kinda spooky.