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From: "Chris & Caroline" <>
Subject: Re: [ENG-HANTS] This should make genealogy a lot easier!!
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 18:16:03 +0100
References: <240902.35242.qm@web80812.mail.mud.yahoo.com><005701c7d9c2$d41112c0$6401a8c0@acer684c9a655d>


Yes I agree and it was most impolite of me to write this so appologies to
all
Chris


----- Original Message -----
From: "rich" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: [ENG-HANTS] This should make genealogy a lot easier!!


Neither a Brit nor a Yank but I agree with Kathy on this one.
It's extremely impolite to say the least and certinly doesn't reflect my
experiences with the nicest people one could possibly meet.

Rich


----- Original Message -----
From: "kathy gillis" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: [ENG-HANTS] This should make genealogy a lot easier!!


> Dear Chris,
> Am upset about your statement-- "And only a US firm could think of
> this!".
>
> This is not a statement to be sent over the internet whether or not it is
> what you truly feel.
> I believe that you owe all of the United States of America citizens who
> are subscribers to this list an apology.
>
> Believe it or not, the majority of US citizens are honest, moral and
> ethical.
>
> Am sorry to disrupt your list with this note but I felt the above
> statement was very wrong.
>
> Kathy Gillis
> An American and very proud of it
> Chris & Caroline <> wrote:
> I agree Betty especially in this country with its data protection act
> etc.
> There are a lot of people who genuinely do not want there whereabouts
> known
> not on because of criminal activities but for legitimate reasons as well.
> And only a US firm could think of this! They seem to have no scruples
> about
> people unless its for getting money.
> Chris
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Betty Mullett"
> To:
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 1:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [ENG-HANTS] This should make genealogy a lot easier!!
>
>
> Just want the world needs. Someone, putting information about a person
> that
> could be bogus, on the internet. How excited am I.......NOT.
> A lot of peoples information is going to be put there whether they want it
> or not. If you don't know its there, it is hard to know to remove it.
> Bah Humbug.
> Betty
> Canada
>
>
> On 8/7/07, Chris & Caroline wrote:
>>
>> All humanity - just a click away
>> August 8, 2007
>>
>>
>> SAN FRANCISCO: A US web firm is preparing to launch an internet search
>> engine it hopes will track down the names of the world's 6 billion
>> people.
>> Spock.com says it has already indexed 100 million people and is adding a
>> million names a day on the invitation-only, beta version of its website,
>> which will be available to the public this month.
>> The emergence of people search engines has sparked concerns over privacy
>> rights. The sites Wink.com and Zoominfo.com already have 200,000 and
>> 37,000
>> profiles respectively.
>> These websites seek to carve their own territory in the search engine
>> world
>> dominated by Google. "We are a search engine organising information about
>> people," said Spock.com's co-founder Jay Bhatti
>> "How Google allows you to type anything and gives you a web document
>> result,
>> we give you results around people."
>> The founders of Spock.com, which has been under development since last
>> year
>> in Redwood City, California, hope the website will eventually provide a
>> search result for everyone in the world.
>> To index individuals, Spock .com scours social networking websites such
>> as
>> MySpace, Friendster and Bebo. It also allows web surfers to add
>> information
>> about individuals to help Spock.com compile full profiles.
>> "We try to index people, but the machine is not enough to understand all
>> the
>> data," Mr Bhatti said. "That's where the community comes in. As a user of
>> Spock you will be able to add keywords, pictures, and to upload pages
>> about
>> people."
>> Mr Bhatti said Spock.com allowed subjects to have their profiles removed
>> and
>> to ask the website to determine where the information came from.
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/2y4b4g
>>
>> Chris
>> SOUTHERN LIFE(UK)
>> http://Southernlife.org.uk
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>>
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