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Google is buying Aardvark, a company that fields questions and routes them for answers to the most qualified respondents within the user’s social-networking circle. “We have signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aardvark, but we don’t have any additional details to share right now,” Google spokesman Andrew Pederson said via e-mail, after technology news blog [...]

Google’s Social Search service, which includes public content from users’ social networks in search results, is getting promoted to Google.com from the company’s Labs site, meaning it is no longer considered an early prototype. In the coming days, Google will let English-language users of its search engine see relevant links to items their social-networking contacts [...]