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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Work from home in your spare time! These days, that’s becoming more than a come-on from a flier stapled to a telephone pole. It’s a growing part of some Internet and cell phone-based services. Learn more.
Additional operational efficiencies and cost-saving measures position company for long-term success
INDIANAPOLIS - March 17, 2009 - The fastest growing SMS mobile search service, with 70% of Google’s SMS search volume, today announced that it has closed an equity financing round of $12 million. These investments will provide ChaCha with the additional capital it needs to [...]
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New York — What a difference a red-eye makes. From a sparsely attended newspaper MediaXchange conference in Vegas to a packed room at the posh W in mid-town, this reporter is pleasantly surprised to see that mobile marketing buzz is strong, and advertizers are fully engaged. Some 450 were in attendance at 7:45 a.m. to [...]
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Sports fans get in the game with simpler and easier sports scores
INDIANAPOLIS, Mar 12, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Expanding its free mobile answers service, ChaCha is rolling out major enhancements to access live sports scores just in time for March Madness. ChaCha is introducing ThmbSavrs(TM) abbreviations that enable fans to send shortcut texts to [...]
INDIANAPOLIS – February 25, 2009 – In a head-to-head comparison between ChaCha and Google SMS, ChaCha achieved 70 percent of Google’s SMS search volume in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to data from the Q4 Mobile Messaging Report from The Nielsen Company. Of all SMS traffic measured in Nielsen’s report, which is comprised of [...]
The most recent ratings from the Nielsen Company show Indiana-based ChaCha is gaining popularity among text messaging users. Nielsen’s Q4 Mobile Messaging Report indicates ChaCha’s 74 million SMS search queries in the fourth quarter of 2008, equaled 70 percent of the volume handled by Google’s similar service. It also shows ChaCha had more than 3.5 [...]
The mobile answer service ChaCha is competing with Google SMS one year after being launched. With 3.5 million unique mobile customers in 2008, ChaCha ranks No. 7 in total text message traffic among all U.S. SMS services.
The Nielsen Company’s Q4 2008 Mobile Messaging Report found that ChaCha achieved 70 percent of Google’s SMS search volume [...]
Based in New York City, Rob Wilk joins ChaCha as VP of Advertising Sales
NEW YORK - February 18, 2009 - ChaCha, the fastest growing SMS mobile search service, today announced advertising veteran, Rob Wilk, will assume the role of Vice President of Advertising Sales, reporting directly to CEO Scott Jones. Rob will oversee national advertising [...]
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Free Online Tax Prep Is Gaining Attention with New Audiences through ChaCha’s Innovative Ad Solutions
INDIANAPOLIS - February 17, 2009 - ChaCha, the fastest growing SMS mobile search service in the industry, today announced the launch of a new SMS mobile advertising campaign for H&R Block. As the world’s preeminent tax services provider, H&R Block understands [...]
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In a pilot program started last month, H&R is advertising its free online-tax-preparation service through ChaCha, the 1-year-old ad-supported mobile service with a core audience of 18- to 34-year-olds. ChaCha lets users call in or text tax questions, then sends them responses via text, along with H&R Block ads inviting them to access tax-prep services [...]
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The mobile Web provides many of the riches available to folks who surf from a PC. But searching for cyberpearls on tiny cellphone keyboards or touch-screens is challenging.
That’s where mobile voice search comes in. I’ve been testing services from Google, Yahoo and start-ups ChaCha and Vlingo. They all let you seek information by merely asking [...]
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On page 59 of the February 9th, 2009 issue of ESPN Magazine, ChaCha wins “Best Way to Settle a Bar Bet” award.
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I have been having trouble getting my head around ChaCha, the human search engine where people, not just algorithms, answer text and voice questions. And then Vice President of Marketing Susan Marshall told me some of the results of the company’s most recent user survey. “We find the majority of users, more than 80%, are [...]
Yet another way of targeting consumers is to find out what kind of questions they’re asking. ChaCha considers itself the fastest growing search company in the United States. Consumers call 1-800 2ChaCha or text 242242 and ask questions; a short time later, ChaCha’s human guides will deliver the answer. Eighty-five percent of ChaCha users are [...]
INDIANAPOLIS - January 9, 2009 - ChaCha, the fastest growing SMS mobile search service in the industry, was recently honored as the runner up in the Best Mobile Startup category at the second annual Crunchies Awards Ceremony held this evening in San Francisco. The Crunchies, co-sponsored by GigaOm, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider and TechCrunch, recognize [...]
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INDIANAPOLIS – December 10, 2008 – For the second consecutive quarter, ChaCha announced that among pure-play SMS search providers ChaCha, Google SMS and Yahoo! SMS, ChaCha is the fastest growing service, capturing more than 28 percent of standard rate SMS search transactions between these providers in the third quarter (according to the Q3 Mobile Messaging [...]
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AT&T Inc. today announced a strategic relationship between AT&T and ChaCha, one of the fastest growing text messaging mobile search services in the industry. As part of the agreement, ChaCha will use a co-branded greeting and promote AT&T when consumers call 1-800 2ChaCha (1-800-2-242242).
The two companies also will work together to further enhance ChaCha’s [...]
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SMS – is king once more. ChaCha Mobile Search has a new strategic partnership with AT&T.
What is it?
ChaCha will use a co-branded greeting and promote AT&T when consumers call 1-800 2ChaCha (1-800-2-242242).The two companies also will work together to further enhance ChaCha’s free mobile-answers service and explore opportunities in both text and voice ad-based services. [...]
AT&T announced on Wednesday that it would partner with human-powered search engine ChaCha, whose natural-language search application has found its niche among text-message users. The two companies will engage in cross-promotion, but no other technological initiatives have been announced.
ChaCha allows mobile phone users to text or speak a question in natural English by calling 800-2ChaCha [...]
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