Social search engine Aardvark has been acquired by Google

February 14, 2010 — Fusion DigiNet

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ACQUISITION
FDN Database Reference: F231109-325

Acquirer: Google
ACQ Web: http://www.google.com
Location: USA, California
Region: North Amerca
Description: Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, video sharing
Category: Search
Contact 1: Eric E. Schmidt, Chairman & CEO
Contact 2: Sergey M. Brin, Technology President
Contact 3: Lawrence E. Page, Products President

Vendor: Aardvark
Vendor Web: http://vark.com
Other Web Links: Blog, Facebook
Location: USA, San Francisco, CA
Region: North Amerca
Description: Aardvark was founded in late 2007. According to Aarvark, the company was was conceived as the first Social Search engine: a way to find people, not web pages, that have specific information.

Category: Search
Contact 1: Max Ventilla, CEO, co founder
Contact 2: Rob Spiro, Co-Founder
Contact 3: Damon Horowitz, Co-Founder
Contact 4: Nathan Stoll, Co-Founder
Aprox. Value: Approximately $50,000,000

Details: Social search engine Aardvark has been acquired by Google. Aardvark will continue to run over IM and email, on the Aardvark Mobile iPhone app, and on vark.com.The Aardvark team will continue working together within Google.

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