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After launching Buzz last week, Google have continued on the social track by now acquiring social search service Aardvark.
The deal, rumoured to be worth around $50 million, could see Google use the social search engine as an answer to, well, Yahoo! Answers. Through IM, Twitter and e-mail, Aardvark lets you ask full-text questions and then takes your social connections and attempts to identify the best person within…

Happy New Year to one and all! It’s hard to believe it is 2010.
The web is full of predictions about what is going to happen in search for 2010 – some good, some obvious and some way out there. In the past, I have cast my predictions and even managed to get some right.
This year, I thought I would do something different – not what I thought…

Although it’s all very new, there has been a lot of talk lately about real-time search and how it will impact your search results. Now real-time search has become even more of a reality with the announcement of a partnership between Twitter and Google which gives Google access to Twitters full feed of public tweets.
From the official Google post:
We believe that our search results and user…

As we all know, Google is by far the most popular search engine, clearly beating its main rivals Yahoo! & MSN. But what if Yahoo! or MSN provided better search results, would you switch?
This is the question that was asked by J.P. Morgan recently in a poll to determine what it would take for searchers to switch to an alternate search engine.
45% of respondents said that…
Google, be afraid, be very afraid….Microhoo is coming!
Last Friday (1st February), Microsoft announced a $44.6 billion bid for rival Yahoo!. The bid would see Microsoft purchase Yahoo!’s outstanding common stock for $31 per share, 62 percent higher than the closing price of the stock on Friday.
Obviously concerned with Google’s continued dominance and quest to control the online advertising industry, Microsoft believes the best way to catch up…