Google Acquires Aardvark, Beefs up Social Search?

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:47:18 +0000

Google is on a social roll. After announcing social sharing feature Buzz in Gmail, they now have announced the acquisition of Aardvark, a social media search startup. Aardvark is a sort of mashup between services like KGB and Yahoo! Answers. You type a question (from the web, IM, email, Twitter, or iPhone), and Aardvark taps the social Web to find the best person to answer that question. Of course, we won’t know exactly how Google will use Aardvark. But if Google Social Search is any indication of where they are headed, it’s not hard to imagine this acquisition will support those efforts.

Read the full article at Website Magazine >

Google ‘buzz’es Its Way Into Social Media

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:22:50 +0000

Just as Ustream is making a push to deliver stronger video mechanisms and cut into YouTube’s empire, Google just launched a new social media tool aptly named ‘buzz’ that will undoubtedly grab a portion of Twitter’s market share.

Google buzz integrates new features with existing Gmail accounts. Through Gmail, a user can now easily interact with sites already used, such as: Twitter, Picasa, Flickr and Google Reader or prompt a conversation directly from the phone.

Learn more about Google Buzz >

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Google Acquires Aardvark, Beefs up Social Search?

Google ‘buzz’es Its Way Into Social Media