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Google buys ask-your-friends site Aardvark

(AP) -- Google Inc. has bought Aardvark, a free question-and-answer Web service.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 11, 2010 | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Review: Need advice? Aardvark can sniff it out

(AP) -- I like to get advice from friends on all sorts of things, and love to give it even more. In the past few years, instant messaging, e-mail and Twitter have sped up the process, but there's still room ...

Technology / Internet

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Google terminating more products in house cleaning

Google on Tuesday announced the latest list of products being tossed out as part of a drive by chief executive Larry Page to focus resources on more promising projects.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Natural born killers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Only a few days old and still blind and naked, chicks of the African greater honeyguide kill their newly hatched foster siblings in order to eliminate competition for parental care, new research from the ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Google pulls plug on Fast Flip, Aardvark

Google said Friday it is pulling the plug on online news reader Fast Flip, social search service Aardvark, commenting tool Sidewiki and several other products.

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created Sep 03, 2011 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Researchers describe genetic basis of rare human diseases

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and in Michigan, North Carolina and Spain have discovered how genetic mutations cause a number of rare human diseases, which include Meckel syndrome, ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sticky snack for elephant-shrews

Long-nosed Cape rock elephant-shrews are fond of sticky treats, according to Dr. Petra Wester from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. Her investigations show for the first time that the elephant-shrew, ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Facebook launches 'Questions,' get answers from other users

Facebook launched a trial version on Wednesday of a much-anticipated new service which allows members to pose questions to other users of the 500-million-strong social network.

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created Jul 29, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Ask.com wants users to ask each other, not Jeeves

(AP) -- You won't be able to ask Jeeves, the butler that made the search engine now known as Ask.com famous in the late '90s. But in a bid to engage more users, Ask is returning to its question-and-answer roots by tapping ...

Technology / Internet

created Jul 27, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Google buys Israeli widget maker

Google has bought an Israeli company that develops mini-programs for the Web known as widgets, the latest in a string of acquisitions by the Internet search and advertising giant.

Technology / Business

created Apr 27, 2010 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Wolfram Alpha answer engine best of show at SXSW

A new Wolfram Alpha search engine that delivers factual answers to online queries instead of links to Web pages won top honors late Sunday at the South By South West (SXSW) awards ceremony.

Technology / Software

created Mar 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Google buys photo editing site Picnik

Internet giant Google announced Monday that it had bought Picnik.com, a website that allows users to edit and store photos online.

Technology / Business

created Mar 01, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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