Archive for April, 2009

ChaCha: Mobile Search Service with a Human Touch

“I took a trip to D.C. this past weekend and was looking for some ice cream in Dupont Circle. Instead of doing a mobile search on Google, I turned to ChaCha. Who’s ChaCha? No – it’s not my crazy aunt who lives in D.C. ChaCha is a human-powered mobile search service. Employing more than 55,000 [...]

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Seattle ad agency bucks industry’s national slump

Clients include H&R Block, which wanted to reach more customers who are in the do-it-yourself mode. That led to the tax preparer sponsoring a message on the free mobile answer service ChaCha. If anyone texted ChaCha with a tax-related question during tax season, the response came back with a H&R Block-sponsored message and link to [...]

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Bar bet? ChaCha will settle it. Unless I’m on the other end.

ChaCha, as most people under 103 know, is the highly addictive mobile answer service that responds to any query you send (text “ChaCha” or “242242″) with a real answer from a real person, usually within three minutes, for free. Is this a great world or what?
ChaCha gets about 600,000 questions daily, mostly from me. See, [...]

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