Mountain View, Calif. -- Adding to its social networking assets, Mountain View-based Google has acquired San Francisco-based social search service Aardvark for around $50 million, TechCrunch reported, citing a source briefed on the deal. The companies had been in discussions since December. Founded in 2007 as Mechanical Zoo by several ex-Google employees, Aardvark counts more than 90,000 users for its service that lets users ask questions and receive answers from members of their social network. The company said that 56% of its users had asked or answered a question, and the median active user was asking 3.1 questions amonth.
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http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/11/google-acquires-aardvark-for-50-million/
http://vark.com
http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/11/google-acquires-aardvark-for-50-million/
