kgb – Gadget Teaser https://www.gadgetteaser.com Tracking the gadget and tech revolution Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:36:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.8 Google picks up Aardvark https://www.gadgetteaser.com/2010/02/13/google-picks-up-aardvark/ Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:38:11 +0000 https://www.gadgetteaser.com/?p=2732 Google made another acquisition this week, this time in the form of Aardvark. Aardvark is an answer service that relies primarily on crowd sourcing to get the job done. It can be a fun way to kill some time, especially if you’ve got it on your iPhone, but people tend to ask fairly vague questions […]

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]]> Aardvark logo.Google made another acquisition this week, this time in the form of Aardvark. Aardvark is an answer service that relies primarily on crowd sourcing to get the job done. It can be a fun way to kill some time, especially if you’ve got it on your iPhone, but people tend to ask fairly vague questions that can be difficult to answer.

Aardvark is joining the Google Labs line of products but will continue to function as normal. That’s a bit of a shift for Google. Acquisitions usually have a hold put on new memberships or even go through a period of service outage before being re-released under the Google name. Really the only change is that Aardvark will be getting some Googlers in addition to its current staff.

The best news in it all is that changes to the Aardvark service will come a lot faster now that it’s in Google’s hands.

Source: Google

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