Dan Farber writes: I got a preview of Spock and liked the concept. The software is still under construction, and while it can do some nice tricks, it also demonstrates the difficulty in building a specialty search engine. In addition, I see Spock as more of community site, which starts with people profiles but extends deeply into the social networking sphere, similar to LinkedIn or Facebook but with data gleaned from the entire Web and user inputs.

Read Dan’s preview of Spock on ZDNet’s Between the Lines.