Search Engine ChaCha Expands Mobile Service To Include Voice Input

Human-powered search engine ChaCha launched in late 2006 to somewhat mixed reviews. It sought to entice users to search with expert guides in real time via IM chat windows. It also offered algorithmic search but the human-guided search was the hook. The concept was great but the practical experience ...

Apr. 1, 2008 at 10:22am Eastern by Greg Sterling

SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 2, 2008

... already features Google, Microsoft, and AT&T, among others. As I said yesterday in my post about the launch of a new voice search offering from ChaCha, most. Google Update Dewey - Google Confirms Algorithm Change Remember a couple days ago I reported on some major shifts in the Google search results ...
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Apr. 2, 2008 at 5:52pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Search Month: March 2008 Search News, In Review

Search Month is a monthly newsletter that recaps stories covered on Search Engine Land over the past month. It's also available by feed here. Below, news about Search Engine Land itself, then our 10 most popular stories from March 2008, then a major story for various search topics along with other ...
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Apr. 7, 2008 at 2:22am Eastern by Danny Sullivan

ChaCha Goes Mobile With TextChaCha

Social search engine ChaCha, which has struggled to gain traction and usage on the desktop, is introducing a new text-based mobile service called "textChaCha" (short code: 242242). The same human "guides" who provide assisted search on ChaCha.com answer potentially any question ...
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Jan. 3, 2008 at 9:57am Eastern by Greg Sterling

SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 3, 2008

... wanted a big traffic rush, we had to walk eight miles in the snow to Yahoo Picks -- Yahoo Picks Of The Week & Picks Of The Day -- and we liked. ChaCha Goes Mobile With TextChaCha Social search engine ChaCha, which has struggled to gain traction and usage on the desktop, is introducing a new text ...
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Jan. 3, 2008 at 4:34pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Search Engine ChaCha Announces $6 Million Round

Led by Amazon's Jeff Bezos' Bezos Expeditions, social search engine ChaCha announced that it had secured a $6 million funding round. ChaCha launched in Q3 last year and employs a network of live guides (college students, stay at home parents, retirees) to help answer user queries in real time in addition ...

Jan. 8, 2007 at 9:13am Eastern by Greg Sterling

SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 30, 2007

... Hero Behavioral Targeting is Not Just Banners, Jonathan Mendez's Blog Searching Now there's Google Finance for Canada-update, Official Google Blog ChaCha Search - Is People Powered Search Better?, SEO By The Sea New Data in Google Trends, Google Operating System Report: Query Types and Search Topics ...

Jul. 30, 2007 at 4:38pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

SearchCap: The Day In Search, Jan. 8, 2007

... attempted verbatim report on it in my weblog though cannot entirely vouch for its accuracy 100%, but it might be of some interest. Search Engine ChaCha Announces $6 Million Round Led by Amazon's Jeff Bezos' Bezos Expeditions, social search engine ChaCha announced that it had secured a $6 million funding ...

Jan. 8, 2007 at 7:35pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 6, 2008

... Diagnosing Search Issues from the Query Box, Part 2, ClickZ Google Search Appliance gets bigger, better, stores 10M docs in a box, VentureBeat Is ChaCha "Imploding" or Growing?, Screenwerk TicketStumbler Aggregates Secondary Ticket Search, TechCrunch New News Search Engine: Newsflashr, Search ...
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Aug. 6, 2008 at 4:55pm Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Google Brings Voice Search To Maps On Blackberry Mobile Phones

... per month according to Nielsen: * Google: 9 searches per month * Yahoo! 6.7 searches per month By contrast, "mobile answers" engine ChaCha, which uses a voice-in text-out approach, has said its users conduct as many as 40 queries per month. That difference is largely about usability and voice ...

Jul. 2, 2008 at 2:01pm Eastern by Greg Sterling