Google bought the Aardvark

Those from Google are delighted to announce that Aardvark has just been purchased. It has defined a new type of social search: "sometimes we want to find a person, not a website that we answer a question. Finally, Google shared our vision for how the search to evolve, including social characteristics.

Most of the Aardvark states that in the past two years have been very careful in designing and building it, considering our views and visions.

This acquisition represents an incredible opportunity to accelerate the evolution, development work with some of the best people in the industry to offer a new kind of search for hundreds of millions of people around the world.

As a first step, Aardvark will be available through Google Labs, so you remain fully operational and completely free, offering fast and helpful answers to questions Our. Those wishing to join, they can do here.

As developed, will continue to work with Aardvark for the speed and quality, building new and interesting features that respond to feedback and to provide the highest level of support. Priority has been and remains to provide quality high-level user.

Aardvark is a type of social search to answer any intrebare.Aardvark launched a private beta in March last year and has grown very rapidly since then. Today people use the site by Aardvark vark.com, Aardvark iPhone app, IM and email. In recent months had an amazing reception in what is the press and industry, appear in the New York Times, Time's 50 Best Websites of 2009, Tech Crunch and won second place for "best new product or the beginning of 2009 "Crunchies Award. Read more on page press.

Aardvark team consists of about 30 people, some of whom are engineers and scientists in the field. The team includes engineers from each of the major technology companies in Silicon Valley, four doctoral students and founders of a dozen pornographic.