Google has big plans for Google+ and, while it has recently opened it up to everyone, there are a lot more features, big and small, coming. Hacker Matt Mastracci, snooping around Google+ code, found several interesting things.
The biggest is something called Google Experts that seems to be a Quora-like Q&A platfor... |
28 September 2011
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Under the leadership of new CEO Larry Page, Google is focusing on fewer products with bigger impact. As such, may side-projects, obscure products and ones that never really got off the ground, or got the chance to, are being put to sleep.Already, Google has said it is shutting down Google Labs and many of its experim... |
3 September 2011
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Google isn’t wasting too much time putting one of its latest acquisitions to work. The search giant bought Aardvark, an interesting Q&A service, a couple of months ago for a reported $50 million. It made it available shortly after in Google Labs, but no one expected to see too much happening around the startup ... |
17 April 2010
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Facebook has reached a stage where it can pursue any product or feature it wants and enter pretty much any market as a strong competitor. Google is one of the few other companies in this position and Facebook has only recently become so powerful. It’s not wasting any time, though, and it is looking at various o... |
14 April 2010
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Google has just acquired search and Q&A startup Aardvark and already we have some clues about the future of the service. Both companies have come out confirming the deal and offering small details about the former's plans for the newly bought company. From the looks of it, the future seems good for Aardvark as n... |
13 February 2010
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Google's social web prowess seems to be growing these days. After just launching its new social network/aggregator, Friendfeed-inspired Google Buzz, the company has confirmed it acquired social search and Q&A service Aardvark for a rumored but unconfirmed $50 million. As a side note, have you noticed how web se... |
12 February 2010
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Social questions and answers service Aardvark is raising a lot of interest from investors lately, despite not generating too much hype about the service itself. Apparently, the company is contemplating an acquisition offer from Google worth over $30 million and also has the opportunity to raise more capital at about ... |
7 December 2009
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Aardvark, the social questions and answers site, has released a new feature, making it even more convenient to use the service by allowing users to ask a question through their Twitter accounts. For now, directing a question to @vark will add it to your account but the answers will still come in the usual fashion. A ... |
8 July 2009
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Aardvark, the social search service, has just been made available to the public after several months in private beta. The service was open to new users since then but it was invitation only meaning that you had to know someone who was already using it to get in. The limitation is no more and now anyone with a Faceboo... |
29 June 2009
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No wonder Apple is keen on letting programmers run loose on its iPhone! All this web, audio, video, and gaming potential in one nicely crafted device... It's overwhelming, I tell you. Today, we're here to talk about the latest and coolest iPhone app: the iAno. Spanish iPhone users, don't freak out! A p... |
19 February 2008
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