Comments on: Aardvark Combines Yahoo Answers With Instant Messaging

By: Google Purchases Aardvark | Revelations From An Unwashed Brain

Google Purchases Aardvark | Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:21:00 +0000

[...] that Google is bringing better things to life, the story on gHacks is very promising -Remember Aardvark? The community that was designed around experts that helped other users who experienced problems in [...]

By: Alison

Alison — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:57:11 +0000

Thanks for the mention! :) I love to see users get excited about Aardvark. If you or any of your readers have more feedback I’d love to hear from you!

- Alison @ Aardvark
alison@aardvarkteam.com

By: Tobey

Tobey — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:19:10 +0000

Glad 2 share, thx 4 puttin it up. :)

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:32:23 +0000

Oh, and thanks Tobey ;)

By: Tobey

Tobey — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:25:35 +0000

I too was amazed by the possibilities this service offers, too much to keep it for myself actually. The great thing is you usually don’t need “experts” or pros to answer you a question, rather someone who simply knows enough about a topic to help you. It is true the quality of answers is not always what may have been desired but it can hardly become any better unless you subscribe for a paid service with pay-to-answer proffesionals.

Besides, combining such kind of knowledge network with IM capabilities was an ingenious idea. I’ve already received satisfactory to very helpful answers to my questions and answered a few in return and so far it’s worked nicely since yesterday.

Via IM the system works through commands, the list of which can be found here:

http://vark.com/commands

They still need some fine-tuning, especially for nested commands but it is already now well usable. And it’s FUN!

IMHO this could be a small information revolution in terms of speeding up information flow even more than the Net itself already does. Just imagine asking answer about any topic you’re into right now and receiving needed info in a few mins – pretty darn cool. Seems to me as one of few TRUE representatives of the over-abused “Bigger, faster, better” trend.