Aardvark Social Search Service Arrives (techcrunch.com)

I've been a beta user of this since the middle of 2008. It's a great service.

(I have invites if they're still not open. Use the contact info in my profile if you want one.)

ChaCha tried something like this and failed before converting to their SMS service.

I find this approach really exciting. The fact that it builds into existing communication channels is very very cool, and the idea of a scalable real-time service is powerful especially for mobile. I like the idea of more services embedding directly into my core communication -- chat, phone, email.

I've been using this for a little while. It's pretty cool, although I always find it humorous that questions about Python (the language) get categorized as 'reptile', but then actually get routed to someone who knows about the language after all.

i got oodles of invites to hand out ... just reply to this post with your e-mail or @reply davidadewumi on twitter and will send you one

Please leave --

first name e-mail three interests/specialties

thanks!

Hmmm... This is also the name of a (fairly old) regional search engine - www.aardvark.co.za.

Looks nice.