October 02, 2009

Aardvark for social search

The Real-Time People Web, Aardvark blog via Altsearchengines (Sept 30)

Sees social search as a change in paradigm - find the people with the knowledge.

"With the Social Search paradigm, online content is used as just an index of what its author knows about; the engine uses this index to find the person you should connect with for your question."

Good in theory - must still vet the person.

Connects social search to real-time search since tweets and facebook updates tell even more about the person.

Really aimed at getting people to join and use Aadvark - it does the routing of questions through social networks including Facebook.

Posted by Gwen at October 2, 2009 08:02 PM