Google is working fast and furious to streamline their product offerings. Just a couple weeks after <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/08/25/slide-google-bloodbath/">killing off all but one</a> of t
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Social Q&A services are springing up everywhere because often search is too cumbersome or imprecise to answer ou
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About a week ago, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/05/23/facebook-questions/">word started getting out</a> that
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-183135" title="1" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/14.png" alt="" />When word first got out that Facebook was <a href="http://www.allfacebo
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/aardvarkshot-1.jpg" alt="" />Two months ago, Google <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/02/11/google-acquires-aardvark-for-50-million/">acqui
<img class="shot2" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/googlevark.png" alt="" />Yesterday we <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/02/11/google-acquires-aardvark-for-50-million/">broke
<img src="http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0001/7577/17577v2-max-250x250.png" class="shot2">Google has acquired social search service <a href="http://vark.com/">Aardvark</a>, says a sou
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/research1-215x174.jpg" width="215" height="174" />In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin published a <a href="http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/pap
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/blue-215x107.jpg" width="215" height="107" />People are continually looking for new pieces of information. We go to school, read articles on a
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Sometimes it takes a while for a site to find its legs. <a href="http://hunch.com/">Hunc
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/cp_1260154012_17577v2-max-250x250.png" width="210" height="54" />Social search service <a href="http://vark.com/">Aardvark</a> is considering
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/32-630x315-215x107.jpg" width="215" height="107" />It's not yet clear what Chomp exactly is, but we do know that it's a rather hot property ri
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/cp_1257478703_17577v2-max-250x250.png" width="210" height="54" />This is, apparently, not a fake exchange. A young journalist comes to <a href
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When you want an answer to a question, you want it now, which is why the social Q&A se
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/Screen-shot-2009-09-15-at-12.32.37-AM-134x200.png" width="134" height="200" />Over the past several months, the social search service <a href=
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Yesterday we sat down with two of <a href="http://vark.com">Aardvark's</a> founders
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One of the most active sub-genres of search right now in terms of startup and new product
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/aardvark-193x200.jpg" width="193" height="200" /><a href="http://vark.com/">Aardvark</a>, the secretive, invite-only social search service fou
<img alt="" />Two startups, <a href="http://www.chacha.com">ChaCha</a> and <a href="http://www.themechanicalzoo.com/">Mechanical Zoo</a>, are taking different approaches to tap human intelligence, and
<img alt="" />It's a wonder to me how San Francisco based <a href="http://www.themechanicalzoo.com/">Mechanical Zoo</a>, a startup founded by <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/max-ventilla">Ma