Archive for July, 2009

ChaCha Mobile Campaign Drives Ticket Sales for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as Awareness Jumps 27 Percentage Points

NEW YORK (July 28, 2009) A mobile campaign from ChaCha, an ad-supported, conversational Q&A service for mobile phone users, dramatically increased awareness of Paramount Pictures’ Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen in the week before its premiere. Measurement of the effectiveness of the campaign showed that the ChaCha ad was able to increase the [...]

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Cool Search Engines That Are Not Google

None of the sites we sampled are likely to replace Google as your go-to search engine for general queries, or dent Google’s growing sway as the world’s information broker any time soon. But even a cursory tour will make you start to think differently about what’s possible in search, and show up some of Google’s [...]

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ChaCha Voice Search on iPhone Outperforms Voice-enabled Search from Giants Google & Yahoo!

ChaCha’s Service Delivers Better Answers More Often, According to a New Report from MSearchGroove
LONDON – July 16, 2009 – Pump Up The Volume: An Assessment of Voice-Enabled Web Search on the iPhone, a performance analysis of voice-enabled mobile search services published today by MSearchGroove, found that ChaCha, the fastest growing SMS mobile search [...]

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Lights. Camera. ChaCha! Leading Mobile Service Challenges Fans to Create Their Own “Life with ChaCha” Commercial

Video contest encourages fans to show how they use ChaCha for the chance to win $5,000 in cash, a video-editing suite and HD camcorder
New York – July1, 2009 – Turning to its users to capture their “Life with ChaCha,” the leading mobile service today announced a create-your-own-commercial contest. The contest calls on fans of ChaCha [...]

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Bing, ChaCha Launch User-Generated Content Contests

Get out your cameras, it’s time for a couple of search-related contests. If you enjoy the large images Bing features everday on its homepage, now you have the chance to see one of your images featured on the brand spankin’ new decision engine. Bing is holding a photo contest where the winner’s image will be [...]

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