ChaCha Search Engine with Guides – A Successful Startup
Published by Sierra Monica B., on Nov 16 2007, in the categories: News
I read an article on TechCrunch about a new search engine that has an additional free service: if you can’t find what you are looking for in the search query, then you can talk to a guide that will find it for you in just a few minutes and less stress. This new search engine is called ChaCha.
In the article I’ve read, the editor was describing ChaCha as “a well funded bad startup” because the search guides don’t have enough knowledge about the www, but in the same time there have been registered 24 million page views/month in January.
So I thought that would be better to test it myself and then write my own opinion about this.
As you can see from the screenshots, I asked the guide in the chat window to find me a list with all known social bookmarking websites.
Of course, I was inspired by the article I read before, where is shown a screenshot with the query “I am looking for a UK equivalent of Digg” and the answer “What is Digg”.
It’s hilarious but when I tried to find my list of social bookmarking sites the guide found exactly what I asked for, and I really don’t have anything bad to say about all this.
The required registering on the website plus using their search engine plus the discussion with the guide until he found the result, took about 5 minutes.
Remember that you don’t have to register if you are using their search engine, but only if you need a guide.
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3 Comments on “ChaCha Search Engine with Guides – A Successful Startup”
David said on 02/28/2008:
lol, just do a search on google for something like "digg uk" and the top result is a uk equivalent called babblestorm. All they need to do is know how to use google... wait... if that's the case, urghm, why does Cha-Cha exist, hehe.
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ChaCha Still in Top said on 03/30/2008:
[...] Million” and this besides spreading “SMS Spam” (TechCrunch) is as I said back in November, a successful startup that yesterday announced to get rid of the search input box and let only their guides to answer [...]
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Sierra said on 03/31/2008:
Yea but it's cool to have someone to find the answers for you.:D
Some people don't know how to ask Google.
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