Thursday, August 6, 2009

AardVark -The serious move towards Real Time Search.

Nobody and me either would argue that we live in ara when Google = Search. And it's far more than just a search tool but after 11 years of incredible grow it still can't address one simple but at the same time hard thing - Real Time Search. No, I'm not gonna devote this post to Twitter as for Twitter being a real time search tool is more of supplemental benefit it is not its main purpose. I'm gonna talk about AardVark .

Well, if you don't watch the Animal Planet here is the short WikiPedia dig about what its name stands for - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardvark and here is why this online service got its name - http://vark.com/help#about_4. Aardvark or just Vark is built on a simple idea of a volunteer collaboration on things, problems or sharing a piece of mind with either your friends, colleagues or completely strangers but still your friends in terms of tastes, common interests. Despite this service is quite new and not widely known, which is just a matter of time, it's fair to outline several purposes for what AardVark is useful:
  1. You have a question but you don't know how exactly to search for it in Google. I mean you don't know the right keywords to lead you to the information you've been looking for. And so you basically you ask for help to Aardvark community, there are huge chances that other AardVark users do know the right keywords to search for the info and they will give you the right answer.
  2. You don't have a time to search for information as you've tried but failed on your first shot in Google - wrong keywords you chose didn't return anything close to the stuff you expected to find. AardVark users may know the answer right away and will give it to you almost instantly.
  3. You need a piece of information about a time sensitive matter, in this case Google or, for Christ sake, Bing don't have any information, which is related to a time frame like today/ yesterday / couple days ago but AaardVark community may have this kind of information.
And finally one of the strongest AardVark advantages is you do not have to stick to its site to answer or ask questions, the system will hook up to your GTalk / AIM / MSN contact list and will forward you questions or answers about the topics you specified in your profile as the ones you have expertise for or you just feel confidence to give a peace of mind about those topics. I'm sure you will love

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