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Google Poaches Social Search Service Aardvark
* By Ryan Singel Email Author
* February 11, 2010 |
* 3:49 pm |
* Categories: Search
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aardvark-answer1The coolest search engine you've never used got snapped up by Google Thursday for a reported $50 million.
Aardvark, a company that lets you use IM, Twitter and e-mail to ask full-text questions and then get answers from people in or close to your social network, confirmed it signed a deal with Google. TechCrunch, which first reported the news, put the figure at $50 million, but Wired.com could not confirm the purchase price.
Google will acquire Aardvark, which is Q & A site. This somehow makes Ask.com think that the future of search lies in Q & A sites. Do you agree? I'm not so sure.