Think Google Inc. has the mobile search space all sewn up? Think again.
ChaCha - heard of ‘em? - claims to have delivered search results to 1 million users since its launch earlier this year, answering more than 27 million queries via text message. And while closer analysis may draw skepticism - the Carmel, Ind.-based startup [...]
ChaCha says it now has more than 1 million users and has answered more than 27 million queries since it launched its potentially addictive mobile answering service in January.
Combined with its quarterly growth rate in the second quarter, ChaCha said that makes it the fastest growing mobile search service, surpassing both Google and Yahoo! in [...]
ChaCha, the human-powered mobile answers service, claims it has captured 7 percent of the mobile text-to-search market with a quarterly growth rate of more than 800 percent.
ChaCha said it now has more than 1 million users and has answered more than 27 million queries since it launched its mobile answers service in January. This, combined [...]
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You’re in a bar with a group of friends when an argument breaks out about Neil Diamond’s age. Your friend is positive that he’s, like, a hundred. You know he can’t be more than 70. With no Internet access, how do you find out how old the balladeer is?
You can ask the mobile search engine [...]
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The human-powered mobile answers service quickly captured
seven percent of the mobile text search market with a quarterly growth rate of more than 800 percent
INDIANAPOLIS - September 17, 2008 - Accepting the 2008 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Innovation, ChaCha announced that it now has more than a million users and has answered [...]
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Since January, ChaCha has fielded 25 million search queries solely from cell phone users.
“I don’t even know what the desktop query is anymore. It’s a big number, but I don’t know what it is,” said Scott Jones, the serial entrepreneur who founded the company in 2006.
ChaCha began as computer-based search engine that used human guides [...]
Do you ever have a question you need answered immediately?
What if you could just call someone anytime of day, and get your answer?
Now you can, it’s a free service for cell phones called ChaCha.
Co-Owner of ChaCha Brad Bostic says, “This is like having a really smart friend that is available to answer any question I [...]
It used to be that, if you had a burning question (depending on the degree of difficulty), you had to a) ask your mom; b) consult a Magic 8 Ball; or c) trek to the top of a mountain to seek out a sagacious, all-knowing guru. Now all you have to do is search the [...]
By now, you’ve seen the T-shirts and ubiquitous red advertisements on the sides of city buses. Carmel-based ChaCha Search Inc. has been winning accolades and enough teen fans to rival Hannah Montana. But none of that makes it apparent how the company can make money giving free answers to random cell phone queries.
ChaCha thinks it [...]
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