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Is the pope a catholic? Aardvark returns immediate answers to life’s esoteric questions

There seems to be a proliferation of Q&A sites, which assume to offer “answers” to anyone who poses a question. Aardvark, WikiAnswers and Mahalo are three new services that purport to deliver education on demand. But it’s not quite feasible, is it? If you are of a mind to ask randomly trivial questions, you may be surprised that Aardvark, WikiAnswers and Mahalo have all arrived to assist you in your quest for knowledge. But ask something “esoteric” and these systems fall flat on their faces. For example, should one be tempted to ask: “How many bones are there in the human body”, within minutes you would be emailed with the answer: 206

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Is the pope a catholic? Aardvark returns immediate answers to life’s esoteric questions

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Aardvark helps you search for friendly answers

With recent changes in the searchiverse like the release of Microsoft’s ‘decision engine’ Bing , the re-rebranding of Ask Jeeves and the launch of Hunch - a search engine that helps you find what you’re looking for by asking a series of questions - you’d be forgiven for thinking that the search market is looking particularly flooded at the moment. And that’s before we even mention Twitter’s new search functions, Google’s recent preoccupation with real-time search and Facebook’s experimentation in the same vein. However, a busy playing field never stopped any business bent on success, and so new search service Aardvark has waded into the battleground

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Aardvark helps you search for friendly answers