Google Buys AI Social Search Service Aardvark

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Posted by timothy on Thursday February 11, 2010 @11:04PM from the spelled-like-the-animal dept.

eldavojohn writes "MIT's Tech Review is covering an acquisition it finds very interesting. Google (which recently announced Buzz) has acquired Aardvark. The review covered Aardvark and the artificial intelligence it uses in its searches in 2009."

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Nose-y. (Score:5, Funny)

by Ostracus ( 1354233 ) writes: on Thursday February 11, 2010 @11:17PM (#31109114) Journal

Interesting name for a social service. An animal with a long nose that sticks it in crevices and laps up insects. How metaphorical.

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Re:Nose-y. (Score:3, Funny)

by Cryacin ( 657549 ) writes: on Thursday February 11, 2010 @11:25PM (#31109140)

They just chose that name to increase page ranking of search results!

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pig.com == vark.com (Score:2, Funny)

by FreakyGreenLeaky ( 1536953 ) writes: on Friday February 12, 2010 @02:59AM (#31110174)

Vark is the Afrikaans word (probably Dutch as well) for pig.
Makes sense, Google is becoming way too corpulent. Hey, I just realised corporate rhymes with corpulent.
Fat and greedy.

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Re:Hasn't this been done? (Score:5, Funny)

by biryokumaru ( 822262 ) * writes: <biryokumaru@gmail.com> on Friday February 12, 2010 @08:39AM (#31111644)

Living in NYC, the vast majority of questions I get asked on Aardvark consist of "Where's a good place to go drinking?" and the like. I don't think verification is necessarily called for.

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Re:Of course they bought it... (Score:3, Funny)

by biryokumaru ( 822262 ) * writes: <biryokumaru@gmail.com> on Friday February 12, 2010 @08:40AM (#31111648)

Maybe they're planning on buying everything and this was the first listing in their phone book...

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Nose-y. (Score:5, Funny)

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pig.com == vark.com (Score:2, Funny)

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