{"id":307938,"date":"2010-02-11T13:30:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T18:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/according_to_techcrunch_google_just.php"},"modified":"2010-02-11T13:30:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T18:30:38","slug":"confirmed-google-has-acquired-aardvark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/307938","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed: Google has Acquired Aardvark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"aardvark_logo_sep09.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/aardvark_logo_sep09.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"38\"  \/>Earlier this morning, we heard <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/02\/11\/google-acquires-aardvark-for-50-million\/\">rumors<\/a> that Google was in the process of acquiring Q&amp;A service <a href=\"http:\/\/vark.com\">Aardvark<\/a> for around $50 million. Aardvark, which was founded by ex-Google employees, was one of our favorite Web services of 2010, but the company still remains relatively small. <\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">tweetmeme_url = 'http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/according_to_techcrunch_google_just.php';tweetmeme_source = 'rww';<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/tweetmeme.com\/i\/scripts\/button.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Aardvark had around <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vark.com\/?p=352\">100,000 users<\/a> in October 2009. Aardvark co-founder Max Ventilla just confirmed with us that the company has indeed signed a deal with Google, though he didn&#8217;t disclose any details.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><em>Sponsor<\/em><br \/><a href='http:\/\/d.ads.readwriteweb.com\/ck.php?n=18226&amp;cb=18226' ><img src='http:\/\/d.ads.readwriteweb.com\/avw.php?zoneid=14&amp;cb=18226&amp;n=18226' border='0' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why would Google be interested in this company? For one, Aardvark&#8217;s team has created a very smart algorithm that can route questions to just the right people. On average, almost 90% of all the questions on Aardvark got answered in October 2009, and the quality of these answers was generally very high. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"aardvark_explain.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/images\/aardvark_explain.png\" width=\"610\" height=\"216\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Maybe Google is also interested in hiring back some of the engineers that left Google for Aardvark. Among <a href=\"http:\/\/vark.com\/team\">them<\/a> are Ventilla, who used to focus on &#8220;strategy for Google&#8217;s marketing and monetization initiatives around Adsense and web applications,&#8221; co-founder Nathan Still, who was the head of Google News for three years, Javascript specialist Fritz Scheider, and Bill MacCartney, who designed a Q&amp;A system for Google Research before he joined Aardvark.<\/p>\n<p>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2009\/12\/06\/aardvark-mulls-over-a-30-million-offer-from-google\/\">not the first time<\/a> that we&#8217;ve heard rumors of an Aardvark acquisition, but in the past the deal either fell through or was nothing more than a rumor. Now, however, we have confirmation that Aardvark has indeed signed with Google. We don&#8217;t expect the companies to disclose the exact price of the acquisition, but we expect to see official statements from both of them soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/according_to_techcrunch_google_just.php#comments-open\">Discuss<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/9MtXhAaFKmVu9brnPGynRg6HZdE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/9MtXhAaFKmVu9brnPGynRg6HZdE\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/9MtXhAaFKmVu9brnPGynRg6HZdE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/9MtXhAaFKmVu9brnPGynRg6HZdE\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/readwriteweb?a=vrUe-hs6U24:LY8ukEKQ8to:FFnlKYwJmN0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/readwriteweb?d=FFnlKYwJmN0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/readwriteweb?a=vrUe-hs6U24:LY8ukEKQ8to:Ij26kaj3iuU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/readwriteweb?d=Ij26kaj3iuU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/readwriteweb?a=vrUe-hs6U24:LY8ukEKQ8to:C2pbw5bZMiI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/readwriteweb?d=C2pbw5bZMiI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/readwriteweb?a=vrUe-hs6U24:LY8ukEKQ8to:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/readwriteweb?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/readwriteweb?a=vrUe-hs6U24:LY8ukEKQ8to:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/readwriteweb?i=vrUe-hs6U24:LY8ukEKQ8to:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/readwriteweb?a=vrUe-hs6U24:LY8ukEKQ8to:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/readwriteweb?i=vrUe-hs6U24:LY8ukEKQ8to:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/readwriteweb?a=vrUe-hs6U24:LY8ukEKQ8to:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/readwriteweb?i=vrUe-hs6U24:LY8ukEKQ8to:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/readwriteweb?a=vrUe-hs6U24:LY8ukEKQ8to:OqabYuBsmOY\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/readwriteweb?d=OqabYuBsmOY\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/readwriteweb\/~4\/vrUe-hs6U24\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this morning, we heard rumors that Google was in the process of acquiring Q&amp;A service Aardvark for around $50 million. Aardvark, which was founded by ex-Google employees, was one of our favorite Web services of 2010, but the company still remains relatively small. Aardvark had around 100,000 users in October 2009. Aardvark co-founder Max [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":592,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}