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ChaCha And Aardvark: Putting Humans To Work To Get You The Answers You Need
Source:TechCrunch Two startups, ChaCha and Mechanical Zoo, are taking different approaches to tap human intelligence, and human labor, and get you quick answers to your questions.
Despite attempts ...read more
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The Mystery Of The ChaCha Eiffel Tower Fail Pic
Source:TechCrunch I've aimed a lot of criticism at human powered search engine ChaCha over the last couple of years. The service lets users ask questions, just like a normal search engine. But inste...read more
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No ChaChing For ChaCha Guides
Source:TechCrunch ChaCha used to be a ridiculous human powered web based search engine that's best use appeared to be for killing time when bored.
They raised a boatload of money from Jeff Bezos a...read more
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ChaCha Cuts Pay Rate In Half, Prepares For Implosion
Source:TechCrunch
We’ve never been big fans of ChaCha, the human powered search engine that pairs you up with a “guide” who attempts to answer your questions in real time. The se...read more
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Miss Tormenting ChaCha Operators? Let Me Introduce You To Stumpedia
Source:TechCrunch Photobucket, acquired by Fox Interactive Media in May 2007 for $300 million, is releasing their API to the public today and will allow third party developers to build photo/video s...read more
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ChaCha Ditches Guided Search Model. I Love To Hate This Startup
Source:TechCrunch Well it only took ChaCha fourteen months to figure out what everyone except ChaCha (and these guys) knew when it launched - search with a human guide as a business idea is ridiculo...read more
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Hey ChaCha, I Don?t Like SMS Spam
Source:Techcrunch Twelve days ago ChaCha, a controversial search engine that uses humans to answer search queries, rolled out a mobile version of the service. Ask it anything via text message, and t...read more
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