Today's Invite-a-palooza featured site just might reunite you with your long-lost love or your best friend from third grade (and if it does, we want to know about it). Spock, a new search service that's still under development, looks like it's shaping up to be a terrific way to search for people. The creators of this site want to be a human phone book of sorts by organizing information on, well, everyone. They're well on their way, too, since they've already indexed over one hundred million people.

Are you listed on Spock's Website? Right now, the only way to find out is by private invitation but, luckily, we've got some. If you're among first 200 people to leave us a note in the comment section, we'll send one your way (make sure to activate it if you get an email confirmation). Whether you snag an invitation or not, if you're a computer science engineer, you'll also want to check out the Spock Challenge for a chance to win $50,000.

If you know of a site you'd like us to consider for the Invite-a-palooza, drop us a note.

If it seems like there's a new social networking site popping up every other day it's because, well, there is. A lot of us juggle registrations at multiple sites and sometimes there's a lot of overlap with out contacts so we were thrilled to hear about a new site that looks like it could help us keep our social networking organized and also search for friends and colleagues that have fallen through the cracks.

Though Spock is still at the invitation-only stage, were able to snag one and check out the up-and-coming site for ourselves.

Once upon a time in order to find information on a person you had to put in a lot of time and hard work. You had to ask around, snoop through garbage cans, use things like binoculars and stakeouts. Things sure have changed. Now all you need is an Internet connection and a name.

Cybersnooping takes another leap forward next week when Spock -- a new search engine -- beta launches. Spock promises to be a step forward in the field of people searching/stalking. Along the same lines as Wink, Spock searches through the web and returns any information it can find on the person entered. As with most people searches, Spock checks the obvious social networks, but the aim is to go well beyond that and actually index the entire web. It seems as though Spock isn't going to be content with simply being another people search. It is planning to do what Google did for web searching, and what Amazon did for product searching. Spock's founders - Jaideep Singh and Jay Bharti -- claim that 30% of all Internet searches are people related, and that alongside Amazon and Google, Spock will complete some sort of holy trifecta of web searching. While it may be true that almost a third of web queries are people related, one has to wonder if those millions of lonely souls searching "Pamela Anderson" are really going to be satisfied with the results Spock provides.

Spock does have some interesting features however. Not least of which is the ability for users to claim their own names. By "proving" your identity, you can take hold of your results and decide, among other things, what photos will be displayed and also add additional personal information. You identify yourself by showing that you have access to a personal data source, such as a MySpace page. Clearly a flawless means of identification. Spock also allows you to import a contact list from places like Outlook, and perform searches against that list. Because, you know, that's way easier than asking them about themselves.