Remember Aardvark? The community that was designed around experts that helped other users who experienced problems in their field of expertise? The premise of Aardvark was that every user in the world is an expert in something. Each Aardvark users would be able to ask questions which would then be answered by other users of the service. This question and answer service which was somewhat related to Yahoo Answers was spiced up with Instant Messaging features. It was for instance possible to ask questions directly from Instant Messaging clients, Twitter or email clients.
Google has bought Aardvark to strengthen their questions and answers capabilities, something that Yahoo for instance did with Yahoo Answers long ago.
Every Aardvark user has received an email about the acquisition in which the founders of the service state that everything will remain as is. The service will remain free and fully operational.
One of the first changes is the addition of Aardvark to Google Labs. That’s not a bad thing as it will expose the service to a larger userbase.
The Aardvark team has created a FAQ on their blog that addresses the acquisition and some question that Aardvark users might have about it.
Google has also released a statement about the acquisition on the Google Blog.
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