• By Ryan Singel  February 11, 2010  | 3:49 pm  | 

The coolest search engine you’ve never used got snapped up by Google Thursday for a reported $50 million.

Aardvark, a company that lets you use IM, Twitter and e-mail to ask full-text questions and then get answers from people in or close to your social network, confirmed it signed a deal with Google. TechCrunch, which first reported the news, put the figure at $50 million, but Wired.com could not confirm the purchase price.

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