Google Kills 10 More Projects, Including Aardvark In another of what Google calls their “spring cleaning” announcements, the web/mobile/media/social/search giant revealed more services are getting the axe, including their personalized homepage...
Not surprisingly, Buzz got the axe, as did Google Labs, The Google Friends Newsletter, Knol, and Aardvark. Google CEO Larry Page took the stage at Zeitgeist 2012 sporting an augmented reality headset and joked, “If you guys are going to take my...
Google Kills 10 More Projects, Including Aardvark Google is bidding farewell to another batch of products that have failed to catch on. Google Related and One Pass are among the latest products Google announced is sending to live on a farm upstate...
Aardvark, a Q Google continues to trim its offerings, announcing that 10 projects will either be discontinued or merged into other products. Also gone or repackaged are: Desktop: All associated APIs, services, plugins, gadgets, and support for the...
Poof -- you're an aardvark. Before I get involved in this next aspect of the Tinfoil Hat Theory, I want to mention something that's happened related to last week's article. On Tuesday, PayPal announced a new system for micropayments for virtual...
Collaborative: For example, Google's acquisition of Aardvark, which enables two or more people working through an IM platform to get answers to questions). A search engine's ultimate mission is to serve the most relevant information it can.
New players on the scene include Aardvark.com, a Q&A search engine, aims to 'tap the knowledge in your network' and Wolfram Alpha, a computational search engine, aims to answer complex questions such as "what is the GDP of USA, Canada, UK...
This is Google's response to the hyped vertical of social search, already started by companies like Aardvark (which is now owned by Google). Surprise, surprise, they've done it again. That's right, the genius minds over at Google have come out with...
Aardvark The spending spree continues. Picnik is a cloud-based photo editing tool. Upload your photos and edit them without needing any software on your computer. While Google has no immediate plans to make changes to Picnik, but it's easy to see...
Last week, they acquired social/Q&A search service Aardvark. The iPhone/iPod Touch application is the latest in a buying spree. Gabor Cselle is the Founder and CEO of reMail, an iPhone and iPod Touch application that downloads email and makes it...
Kind of reminds me of Aardvark, which was acquired by Google last week. App harnesses crowd-sourcing, a departure from their text-based service. You may know ChaCha as a text messaging-based search service.
In addition to launching their own quasi-social network and acquiring Aardvark, they were busy pushing out a bunch of updates to existing products and sharing new data. So many Google updates. So little time.
TechCrunch has reported that Google acquired Aardvark for $50 million. A spokesperson for Aardvark confirmed the deal. If you're not familiar, Aardvark is a Q&A search engine of sorts. Aardvark is a type of social search.
Aardvark Aardvark The awards are given to various areas of the technology field. Facebook has won the best overall product award for all three years. The list of all winners is below: Best Technology Achievement:
Aardvark has launched its new social search site at vark.com. Aardvark's version of social search is more like an answers site than other social search sites. But the advantage of Aardvark is similar to SMS search - go on about your day while...
