Google acquires Aardvark question-and-answer service for $50mil
You may not have heard of Google's latest purchase, Aardvark, but now it might become mainstream a lot sooner than anyone expected. The basic premise of Aardvark is that you throw a question out into the ether, and it gets answered by a network of people that's chosen based on your social graph, which Aardvark determines using Facebook. You can also sign up to answer questions based on your ...
Aardvark is a service that using social networking to answer your questions. I've been using it for a while, and it definitely works when you need to find an answer, but using it over IM is a bit annoying. If you're signed up to answer questions, you'll frequently get IMs asking you about things you may or may not know anything about. That's why it's great that Aardvark now has a web interface at ...





