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What's That: Vertical Search

Vertical search, as the name suggests, refers to search engines which focus on a specific industry or topic. Examples of vertical search engines include Kosmix, Healthline and Spock a "person" search engine which allows you to keyword-search your neighbor (the Spock website claims to have 100 million already indexed).

Spock is still in beta.

D.J. Smith is Co-Founder & Senior Principal at WebDriven. A 15-plus year veteran of the Internet, he still remembers - albeit not too fondly -- how to setup a gopher site.

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