We’re extremely excited to announce that Aardvark Social Search is now available on the web at www.vark.com!
Aardvark finds people, not web pages, to answer any question. At www.vark.com you can ask any question in plain English, and Aardvark will discover the perfect person in your network to answer. You’ll get their response in under 5 minutes!
This summer the Aardvark team has worked hard to make Aardvark available over email, Instant Messenger, Twitter, and the iPhone. Based on the popular success of these applications, we’re thrilled to launch Social Search on the web today.
Anyone can visit www.vark.com now to give it a try — Aardvark will work out-of-the-box, using your existing profile and social-network from Facebook or your email address book.
Aardvark is useful for the questions that come up every day where you want an answer from a real person:
- Recommendations for local services (”Can anyone recommend a great moving company?”)
- Book suggestions (”I’m just getting started with knitting, what’s a great how-to book to teach me the basics?”)
- Travel tips (”Does anyone know of a great bed-and-breakfast along the coast between LA and San Diego?”)
There are now Aardvark users in over 100 countries who can answer questions about over 1 million topics. So go ahead and ask anything!
When you visit www.vark.com you can just type in your question:
Aardvark will figure out what your question is about, and find the perfect person to answer:
When someone answers your question, you can have a quick followup conversation with them:
You can also help other people in your network by answering their questions!
As always, we’d love to hear what you think! Drop us a note in the comments or post any feedback in our community forum.
7 Comments
This is such a great idea
That is really great idea .
but you said you “You’ll get their response in under 5 minutes” it think its too long
there is a problem i cant open that website, this error come out
“504 Gateway Time-out
The server didn’t respond in time. “
Seems nice. Unfortunately the Facebook connect button is not working under Chrome 3 (Windows), the pop up is not appearing.
a Google killer for sure!
Been using vark for a while now. Awesome.
thanks for this, Been using vark for a while now.
a Google killer for sure!
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