ChaCha - The Future of Search Engines
Published by Sunny on January 8th, 2007 in Internet, News - ViewsChaCha, a new “smart” search engine powered by human intelligence seems to be promising.
Started by Scott Jones and Brad Bostic, ChaCha boasts off that they ‘make it easy for visitors to find exactly what they were looking for without having to wade through millions of results’. And that is exactly what they do.
The current implementation of ChaCha offers a combination of automation and people-powered search. The results can be organized by a vertical, like images or news. Also it has a set of related searches. But by far the most interesting and unusual aspect of ChaCha is its people-powered search. If you do not find a search result satisfying, you can ask a Guide to help you with the query. This is where ChaCha is different from other search engines. ChaCha’s Guides are real human beings! They are here to help you with your search queries, no matter how dumb they are.
ChaCha’s Guides maybe really helpful, but they are really annoying at times. For instance, they just go blank for quite sometime without uttering a word. And at times, the search results they provide look straight out of ChaCha’s normal search.
If your looking forward to perform a weird search, or don’t have any person to chat online, or just short of activities, I recommend you head to ChaCha and search with a Guide. The conversations you can make is hilarious. However, don’t expect your chat partner to be doing this for fun, each Guide is paid $5 per hour of search (some even upto $10 an hour). For that kind of money, who wouldn’t want to be a Search Guide! Just incase you would like to be a ChaCha Guide, don’t fear - you can signup now :) According to VincentG, a Guide at ChaCha, the number of registered Guides has topped 15,000! Vincent made $330 in his first month!
ChaCha has raised $6 million in a round led by Bezos Expeditions, the personal investment firm of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Rod Canion, founding CEO of Compaq, and Maven Ventures partner Jack Gill also contributed to it.
Like I said before, the Guide Logs are hilarious! If you have a funny Guide log, then post it here so that we all can have a laugh. I leave you with a funny Guide log that took place between Omkar and Wendy:
Status: Looking for a guide .
Status: Connected to guide: WendyR
WendyR: Welcome to ChaCha!
Omkar: hi
WendyR: Hi there. I will be helping with your search.
Omkar: i am looking for osama bin laden
WendyR: his location?
Omkar: yeah
Omkar: present location
WendyR: If you find it let me know
Omkar: i didnt find him there
Omkar: anyways
Omkar: well
Omkar: what about world peace
WendyR: There is a world peace religion
WendyR: Thanks for coming to ChaCha! Give me a moment while I do all your searching for you!
WendyR: Please RATE ME. Thanks for using ChaCha.
Status: Session ended.
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January 8th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
Submitted by neelakantankk:
January 8th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Submitted by Sensationalboy Azhar
January 8th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Posted by Whally
January 8th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Guide log by Stoat Box:
January 8th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
lol !
chacha is better for tp than searching something !!
January 8th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Its great to fool around. If you’re bored, you know where to go
January 9th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Submitted by Kunal Goutham:
Edit (El Coordinatore): This was kinda lame, but heck…..
January 30th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Status: Connecting …
Status: Looking for a guide …
Status: Connected to guide: AngelaH
AngelaH: Welcome to ChaCha!
AngelaH: Hello!
You: Hola!
AngelaH: What info on autos can I help you find?
You: Deseo los coches de Ford.
You: ¿Puede usted ayudarme?
You: ¿Hola?
You: ¿Está usted allí?
You: Hello?
AngelaH: I am sorry I do not speak Spanish
You: Neither do I
AngelaH: Ok then again, in English please, what can I help you find?
You: Thanks, I’m done.
Using babelfish!
January 30th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Lame too!
January 31st, 2007 at 10:46 am
LOL, nice ones.
@Moomo: I’ve had a chat with VincentG, and he was pretty helpful and answered my questions. He wasn’t like the other Guides who are usually serious.. (and did you find the picture you were looking for? lol)
March 27th, 2007 at 12:12 am
WOW..
February 22nd, 2008 at 11:40 am
deanna: Welcome to ChaCha!
You: o rly?
deanna: can you be more specific as to what your searching for?
You: no wai!
deanna: oh. so you can’t give me any other information?
You: ya rly.
deanna: im not quite sure I understand.
You: o rly?
deanna: Im sorry what is o rly?
You: i dunno thats wahy i need to know
You: im so drunk right now. im sorry if im not making sense..
deanna: any additional infor you can give me to assist with my search?
You: i dunno, i think its a internets joke or something. just find it, deacka.
deanna: thats fine. and my name is deanna
You: whatever you say debooboo. my friend wont stop saying it at me
deanna: just ask him what it is
deanna: I just need alittle more information to get better results
You: ok letr me ask him
deanna: so can you help me here or not?
You: wtf kinda guide are you decocka? your supposd to be helpin ME!
You: he just keesp saying o rly? ya rly. no wai! yaweh.
You: and hes holding up a owl.
deanna: well its not clear to me
You: o rly?
deanna: Im sorry Im not understanding
You: o
You: r
You: l
You: y
You: ?
deanna: if you can give me alittle more information I can help
You: this idiot wont shut the hell up. he jsut keeps saying those words over and ovr again
You: can you wait like one second dezoobop?
deanna: sure
deanna: I will be right here. and my name is deanna.
You: ok so i threw a dart at him and i got him right in the thigh. its kinda bleedin on my cat so lets hurry this up here deyaya. its not bad or anything but at leat he finally shut the **** up.
deanna: maybe you can try later
You: yeha maybe
deanna: good bye
You: bye
You: wait
deanna: have a great night
You: ill be lonely
deanna: goodnight
You: NOOOO DON’T LEAVE ME!!!!
deanna: what, do you wanna screw or something?
You: uhh… pardon?
deanna: Thanks for using ChaCha! I hope you had a great search experience!
deanna: Please RATE ME. Thanks for using ChaCha.
Status: Session ended.
Hahahhaa
July 10th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Can I ask though - how did you get this picked up and into google news?
Very impressive that this blog is syndicated through Google and is it something that is just up to Google or you actively created?
Obviously this is a popular blog with great data so well done on your seo success..
Boxing greats you should write about next!
August 30th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Hi, I am looking for building my chacha team. I will provide some tips to my referrals to ensure that they definitely pass their exam. So if anybody planning to be chacha guide then please mail me(suranjanaghosh@gmail.com) to join my team.
thanks in advance.