A United States web firm is preparing to launch an ambitious internet search
engine that it hopes will eventually track down the names of the world’s six billion people. Spock.com says it has already indexed 100-million people and is adding a million names per day on the invitation-only, beta version of its website
Teenagers have online cliques at MySpace; students star in Facebook; LinkedIn is an internet networking stage for professionals; and dogs and their human counterparts run with the pack at Dogster — a flourishing social-networking website for canines, referred to as "animal companions" instead of "pets".