Google Inc. today announced the acquisition of Aardvark; an online social search that provides users with responses instead of search results. The social search promises to return human responses to your questions within minutes, by carefully selecting the right person.

“We’re extremely excited that Google shares our vision for how search can continue to evolve by including social features.” Max Ventilla, Zoo Director, Aardvark said of the acquisition,  “This acquisition represents an incredible opportunity to accelerate this development, working with some of the most amazing folks in the industry to offer a new kind of search to hundreds of millions of people.”

Google Inc. has been working closely with the development team at Aardvark for the past two years to develop a faster and more accurate system. Google Inc. Also noted that they will be developing Aardvark over the next two weeks and months to improve its speed and quality of service to its users. While the transition takes place Google Inc. will be incorporating Aardvark into Google more, providing hundreds of millions of users with on-demand answers to those tricky questions one might have.

If you currently have an account with Aardvark, fear not, all existing accounts will work as normal. If you are interested in using Aardvark, you can do so immediately through Google Labs, and for free.

Once you register, all your questions will be set to private by default, however, you will be able to change this setting to public, once questions are set to public, they will be indexed by Google, Bing, Yahoo and other search engines.

Additionally, users may sign up here as well and import import either their Facebook or Google account to quickly sign up and start using the service.