Google buys ask-your-friends site Aardvark
denco
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100211/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_google_aardvark
SAN FRANCISCO – Google Inc. has bought Aardvark, a free question-and-answer Web service.
Aardvark co-founder Damon Horowitz confirmed the purchase Thursday. He would not disclose financial details.
Aardvark was formed in 2007 by Horowitz and three others — two of whom are former Google employees. It lets users ask questions online that are routed to friends and friends of friends. The goal is to get relevant answers on any topic as quickly as possible. Users can ask questions through Aardvark's Web site, Twitter, over Google Chat or via e-mail. Aardvark had more than 90,000 users as of last October.
Buying Aardvark is the latest effort by Google to own more services — and capture more of people's online time — rather than just linking to other sites.
The transaction returns Google to the question-and-answer field. In 2006, it abandoned Google Answers, a 4-year-old service through which users would pay anywhere from $2 to $200 to get answers to questions from hired researchers.
David
didn't vark aard enough!
Omnivorous
Aardvark in case it ever turns into a service like Google Answers,
something that Tara Calashain speculates on in Research Buzz this
morning:
http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/google-buys-an-aardvark-and-puts-it-in-the-lab/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+researchbuzz%2Fmain+%28ResearchBuzz%29
eiffel
wouldn't that just mean that we would be fed each other's questions to
answer?
On Feb 16, 4:31 pm, Omnivorous <andy.czer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It might be a good idea to build a network of former GA researchers on
> Aardvark in case it ever turns into a service like Google Answers,
> something that Tara Calashain speculates on in Research Buzz this
> morning:http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/google-buys-an-aardvark-and-puts-it-in...
Probo
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myoarin
Very interesting.
Myo
On Feb 20, 10:01 am, Probo <bryanclough...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I just tried to access Uclue but I suspect that it has been SABOTAGED!
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> On Feb 18, 9:43 pm, eiffel <roger.bro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > But omnivorous, if former GA researchers formed a network on Aardvark,
> > wouldn't that just mean that we would be fed each other's questions to
> > answer?
>
> > On Feb 16, 4:31 pm, Omnivorous <andy.czer...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > It might be a good idea to build a network of former GA researchers on
> > > Aardvark in case it ever turns into a service like Google Answers,
> > > something that Tara Calashain speculates on in Research Buzz this
> > > morning:http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/google-buys-an-aardvark-and-puts-it-in...Hide quoted text -
David
On Feb 21, 9:53 am, myoarin <lawre...@fogelberg.de> wrote:
> Ha, there is life in GAAA still!
>
> Very interesting.
>
> Myo
>
> On Feb 20, 10:01 am, Probo <bryanclough...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I just tried to access Uclue but I suspect that it has been SABOTAGED!
>
> > ERROR
> > The requested URL could not be retrieved
>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> > While trying to retrieve the URL:http://uclue.com.alias/
>
> > The following error was encountered:
>
> > •Read Error
> > The system returned:
>
> > (54) Connection reset by peerAn error condition occurred while
> > reading data from the network. Please retry your request.
>
> > Your cache administrator is supp...@nearlyfreespeech.net.
>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > Generated Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:59:07 GMT by
> > vhost.phx2.nearlyfreespeech.net (squid/2.7.STABLE7)
> > On Feb 18, 9:43 pm, eiffel <roger.bro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > But omnivorous, if former GA researchers formed a network on Aardvark,
> > > wouldn't that just mean that we would be fed each other's questions to
> > > answer?
>
> > > On Feb 16, 4:31 pm, Omnivorous <andy.czer...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > It might be a good idea to build a network of former GA researchers on
> > > > Aardvark in case it ever turns into a service like Google Answers,
> > > > something that Tara Calashain speculates on in Research Buzz this
> > > > morning:http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/google-buys-an-aardvark-and-puts-it-in...quoted text -
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> > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text -
eiffel
Google Blogoscoped - Topeka, Kansas Is Now Google, Kansas
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2010-03-03-n59.html
Probo
They'll run it for a few years and then 'retire' it leaving all the
residents in the lurch.
Will there then be the potential to rename it Bad Myoarin, Kansas?
Here's hoping!
anonsi
gems as this!
eiffel
> gems as this!
It's a tough job going to GAAA, but someone has to do it. Thanks!
David
itself TOPEKA (at least for today, April Fools...make sure to visit
google.com to see it).
dj
myoarin
But Probo's comment of 20 Feb. seems to apply again: no error
message, just NO activity for 45 hours!
Is everyone away for Easter?
SO, Happy Easter to all!
Myo