Spock.com - Quite logical if you think about it…

Matt Marshall of VentureBeat tipped us off to Spock, a search engine for people, which unfortunately is still under wraps in pre-beta mode.

As Marshall describes it:

When Spock launches, it will have 100 million profiles of people in its database, by far the largest open repository of profiles anywhere. Spock delivers a mixture of facts and research on a people, but also opens a profile to social input, giving it a touch of Wikipedia.

I saw that idea and wondered why I hadn’t thought of that myself… after all, I probably search more for information on people than any other area in the time I devote to searches on Google.

The only wrinkle that I might add to this whole idea (assuming Marshall covered all the bases in his writeup) would be that it would be nice to have an extensive collection of photos and videos — like interviews of that person or other appearances they may have made which could end up on video — to go along with it as well.

As it stands, I generally have to go to Wikipedia, Google Images, Google Video and sometimes even YouTube when I look for info on a person. It would be nice to have a single source I can turn to for all that info.

I signed right up to get on their beta list, hopefully they’ll let me in.

So stay away from their beta registration, folks! I want in!