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The Killings Continue At Google: Aardvark Put Down

23 points by ukdm 15y ago

wccrawford 15y ago
"Over this time, we learned a lot about creating and maintaining online communities, and how to facilitate sharing of knowledge between people." Except, you know, the whole 'real name' debacle.
- shithead 15y ago
  Nothing good is going to come out of Google's obsession with "social". It's a fool's errand that may end up costing them the company. If they succeed, they become what, fuckbook with coupons? And move on to organizing the world's stupidity into neat little crap piles, perhaps. Way for allegedly smart guys to microsoft themselves.
zwadia 15y ago
Not the brightest animal.
jdp23 15y ago
When Google+ first came out, there was code that seemed to imply an upcoming "Google Questions". I was assuming it would be based on Aardvark ... apparently not.
tsotha 15y ago
We use some Google tools where I work. I'm always afraid the Goog will lose interest and send us scrambling to find some other way to do what we're doing.
phuff 15y ago
Aardvark has never been totally awesome to the point where I would use it to ask questions myself, but it has done a really good job sending me IM's asking me questions that are really relevant to things I'm reasonably well read on. I think it was a really neat idea, kinda sad to see it go, even though it's kind of been a wasteland since the acquisition. Which I guess is what the Google acquisitions mostly have been lately, "talent acquisitions" rather than "we want to get into this business" acquisitions.
erikb 15y ago
Google is really impressing. I never expected such a great company can change their direction so fast and drastically as Google does since they have their Wartime CEO making the decisions.
crux 15y ago
Aardvark was truly great when it first started. I was an early adopter, got the t-shirt, and received and shared a lot of great information. It's sad to see it go, but I checked out a long time ago. Maybe it was a question of incentives, but at a certain point the whole thing tipped and after that point nearly every answer I got was some combination of poorly punctuated, flippant, ignorant, or willfully spiteful. At the same time the question pool became very thin, and I started receiving a half-dozen let-google-that-for-you queries a day. Really neat t-shirt, though.

23 points by ukdm 15y ago

"Over this time, we learned a lot about creating and maintaining online communities, and how to facilitate sharing of knowledge between people." Except, you know, the whole 'real name' debacle.

shithead 15y ago
Nothing good is going to come out of Google's obsession with "social". It's a fool's errand that may end up costing them the company. If they succeed, they become what, fuckbook with coupons? And move on to organizing the world's stupidity into neat little crap piles, perhaps. Way for allegedly smart guys to microsoft themselves.

zwadia 15y ago

Not the brightest animal.

jdp23 15y ago

When Google+ first came out, there was code that seemed to imply an upcoming "Google Questions". I was assuming it would be based on Aardvark ... apparently not.

tsotha 15y ago

We use some Google tools where I work. I'm always afraid the Goog will lose interest and send us scrambling to find some other way to do what we're doing.

phuff 15y ago

Aardvark has never been totally awesome to the point where I would use it to ask questions myself, but it has done a really good job sending me IM's asking me questions that are really relevant to things I'm reasonably well read on. I think it was a really neat idea, kinda sad to see it go, even though it's kind of been a wasteland since the acquisition. Which I guess is what the Google acquisitions mostly have been lately, "talent acquisitions" rather than "we want to get into this business" acquisitions.

erikb 15y ago

Google is really impressing. I never expected such a great company can change their direction so fast and drastically as Google does since they have their Wartime CEO making the decisions.

crux 15y ago

Aardvark was truly great when it first started. I was an early adopter, got the t-shirt, and received and shared a lot of great information. It's sad to see it go, but I checked out a long time ago. Maybe it was a question of incentives, but at a certain point the whole thing tipped and after that point nearly every answer I got was some combination of poorly punctuated, flippant, ignorant, or willfully spiteful. At the same time the question pool became very thin, and I started receiving a half-dozen let-google-that-for-you queries a day. Really neat t-shirt, though.