Social search product Aardvark: Yahoo Answers meets Twitter — but better
Public details have been scant about the social search product from The Mechanical Zoo, a company chock full of former Googlers that just announced it raised $6 million from August Capital and Baseline Ventures. But for the last three months, I’ve actually been a beta tester for the company’s first product, Aardvark.im.
It’s one of the best web applications I’ve seen during my year with VentureBeat.
The simplest explanation is Yahoo Answers meets Twitter — real-time, rapid… Continue Reading
Jyve, gives you collaborated search results
Jyve is another search engine trying to use online collaboration to answer your questions.
It is like Cha-Cha, which does something similar, letting real people answer your questions. But Jyve says it is better because it can link you with experts in the topic area you are asking about. It gives you a way to IM/chat with the people answering your question, and if it merits in-depth research, the person providing the answer can ask… Continue Reading
YouTube’s spoils, Yahoo answers, Danger, fuddy US companies & more
The latest roundup of the action happening in Silicon Valley:
First evidence of YouTube wealth — What do you do with your money, when you get it? One way is to spend $20 million to buy Andre Agassi’s Tiburon estate. That’s what Stuart Peterson, of Artis Capital Management, an investor in YouTube, did, as PE Week’s Alex Haislip reports. Or you can invest it into night clubs, as some Web entrepreneurs have done.
Google Answers shuts down, while… Continue Reading