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Spock: Idiocy Writ Large

Well, well. According to Wired, hype-heavy people search engine Spock thinks people that write about pedophiles are pedophiles themselves, and isn’t afraid to share that knowledge with the world.

Jaideep Singh responded to Wired:

CEO Jaideep Singh claims Spock is no different than Google, indexing and aggregating information already available elsewhere on the web. Spock spiders major social networks and public sites, culling text and photos and adding descriptive tags to build your profile. If you’ve got a page on MySpace, Hi5, Friendster or Wikipedia, odds are good you’ve also got one in Spock’s 100-million-profile database. [from Wired]

Umm, no, halfwit. Google associates information with WEBPAGES. Spock associates information with PEOPLE. Those two things are different - in the latter case, mistakes are known as “libel.”

From the get go, Spock has reeked to me of dot com bubble. Hype, hype, hype. A technology that people don’t really seem to be clamoring for. Frat boy, misogynistic office environment. And now this: a technology that sucks, and stupid, deceitful means of driving adoption and collecting data (the “Mad Libs” app that Wired talks about). Back in the good old days, all of these clowns would have been consultants somewhere and at least inflicted themselves on clients only, instead of the the 100 million victims Spock has “indexed.”

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