Comments on: ChaCha Launches Mobile Interface. They Still Suck.

By: Awful!

Awful! — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:30:38 +0000

cha cha is terrible! i always get incomplete answers and apparently, when they don’t want to answer a question (even if it’s the first one you have asked) they say that you ran out of questions.

By: John U. Suck

John U. Suck — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:50:04 +0000

ChaCha’s alive and thriving, bitch.

By: ChaCha Co-Founder Brad Bostic Steps Down As President | Reviews Manual

ChaCha Co-Founder Brad Bostic Steps Down As President | Reviews Manual — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:44:44 +0000

[...] clear exclusive when users move by clicking finished to the book ad. In the past, we’ve questioned the scalability of its playing model, and we’ve also made fun of whatever of the answers that hit been [...]

By: ChaCha Co-Founder Brad Bostic Steps Down As President

ChaCha Co-Founder Brad Bostic Steps Down As President — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:25:58 +0000

[...] pay only when users respond by clicking through to the text ad. In the past, we’ve questioned the scalability of its business model, and we’ve also made fun of some of the answers that have been sent to [...]

By: ChaCha Co-Founder Brad Bostic Steps Down As President

ChaCha Co-Founder Brad Bostic Steps Down As President — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:25:57 +0000

By: Techcrunch - ChaCha Gets Some Love (and Cobranding) From AT&T | Underground Money Making

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:15:05 +0000

[...] questioned the scalability of the business, which uses human guides to answer questions. And we’ve also made fun of some [...]

By: ChaCha Gets Some Love (and Cobranding) From AT&T

ChaCha Gets Some Love (and Cobranding) From AT&T — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:53:22 +0000

[...] use the service, call or text a query to 1-800 2ChaCha (1-800-2-242242). We’ve questioned the scalability of the business, which uses human guides to answer questions. And we’ve also made fun of some [...]

By: fuck ChaCha

fuck ChaCha — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:11:45 +0000

ChaCha is full of incompetent people at the headquarters. Constant system failure, constant bad business practices all around. It is like an virtual sweatshop. Speak out about bad things going on and you get canned. But bad things are constantly going on. Google’s service is gonna wipe the floor with chacha and put them to bed.

By: dumdum

dumdum — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:22:43 +0000

I once enjoyed working for Chacha, but they have gotten ridiculous
it is no longer a good place to work… they nit pick responses to get you down on the low end of pay and i have logged in and not received a single question for hours…

By: The Mystery Of The ChaCha Eiffel Tower Fail Pic

The Mystery Of The ChaCha Eiffel Tower Fail Pic — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:13:27 +0000

[...] version, which has since been discontinued. The mobile version is actually very useful, although we questioned its scalability when it launched. New information from the company suggests they’re keeping costs low enough [...]

By: Mrowr

Mrowr — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:17:56 +0000

I wonder what you have to say about ChaCha being noted as one of the best work at home jobs, as well as their customer rate hitting an all time high recently.

By: Hey ChaCha, I Don’t Like SMS Spam

Hey ChaCha, I Don’t Like SMS Spam — Sat, 17 May 2008 07:49:27 +0000

[...] days ago ChaCha, a controversial search engine that uses humans to answer search queries, rolled out a mobile version of the service. Ask it anything via text message, and they’ll send you an answer in a few [...]

By: ChaCha SMS - is this our dance? at infodoodads

ChaCha SMS - is this our dance? at infodoodads — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:42:27 +0000

[...] thread, so context can be continued from one question to the next. On the other hand, a couple of TechCrunch reviews are less favorable, pointing out issues of scalability, ChaChaSpam, and the costs of text [...]

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:13:24 +0000

ChaCha is indeed sticking a human between you and Google. I don’t see anything wrong with that. If I need to know the forecast while not on a computer, ChaCha is the best resource to go to. Not everyone uses the painful mobile browsers.
How about this for an example?

“I’m driving from Chicago to Indianapolis, about 30 miles north of West Lafayette. When is the rain going to stop?”
5 mins later:
” You are currently on the edge of the rainstorm, keep going and you should be out of it in 10 or 15 miles.” They were off by 5 miles.

Of course, I pulled over and texted that.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:00:37 +0000

#33 – haha. added that to the forums. good one.

http://forums.t...ID=21834啊

By: SK

SK — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:23:08 +0000

Arrington thrives on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth he must face is that, in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk (Chacha?) is probably more meaningful than his criticism designating it so.

-adapted from Anton Ego, Ratatouille

By: David Kahn

David Kahn — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:48:48 +0000

Question
i am cold where is the nearest clothing shop

Answer
I am sorry your cold. Since don’t know where I can suggest look in the windows around you do any have clothing displays?

It would be nice if they had a tracking system. Google has that. You don’t even have to have a gps to see where you are with Google.

By: My 2 cents

My 2 cents — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:50:15 +0000

Hi Michael,

I think your “article” shows how much time you spent thinking about the service.

First of all, not everybody out there is a nerd who likes or is able to browse for such things as the actual temp in NYC via a mobile browser.

Second of all mobile browsing is still user unfriendly (how about writing something useful like that) and in comparison to text messaging expensive.

Third – there are “developed” countries out there, where text messaging is extremely popular and cheap – see SE-Asia and Europe. The US mobile market is far – and I mean lightyears – behind them in regard of availability, quality of service and acceptance of text messaging.

Fourth, the question for temps in NYC is not dumb or useless. It’s a normal question and somebody who has a cellphone has other needs. Cd somebody pls explain to me, why I should give a dime about the fuel needed for a 737 – this is imho a dumb question.

Fifth, making statements like – this is not scalable is just plain wrong. Why should this service be not scalable? Maybe your definition from scalability differs from mine, but the service is of course scalable, if it is profitable is a different question. You should make proper statements.

Last but not least, the answer from Cha Cha given in comment 33 should have been “He is a arrogant person, who makes public statements without reflecting on new ventures…”

By: Mike Ma

Mike Ma — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:27:48 +0000

Hi Michael,

The service is great. Just that it’s not scalable doesn’t mean that “they still suck” With micro-payments in the future, there maybe a business model for this service. I would easily pay up to 99 cents for an instant answer i wouldn’t have access to otherwise. If i were to pay, i would want some kind of service level agreement like response within 15 mins or something like that.

The title of your blog itself leads one to believe your as “fair and balanced” as the FOX News channel! =P

By: stebeballmer

stebeballmer — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:49:11 +0000

“they still suck”? Mikey such great journalism.

fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

By: Shanya

Shanya — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:40:39 +0000

funny question that I asked Cha Cha …”Why is Michael Arrington a douche bag”…the response..”I don’t know if Michael Arrington is a douche bag or not. He’s very negative to new ventures. http://chacha.com/u/guo2sisw

great response, I love this service!!!

By: skcus notgnirra

skcus notgnirra — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:46:15 +0000

Michael,
I can’t criticize you for what you said in this post, because the post is not really harsh, but the title is (because it’s meant to be). You guys are good, because 95% of the population don’t even know what the f they are reading.

They think you are slamming these guys, but in reality you are promoting them, meanwhile building a ‘Bad Ass’ image for yourself as well. You are definitely smart though, and in fact do work hard and have an ability for being sneaky.

Even their PR person (I would assume), who has the second comment here, is still kissing your ass in an indirect way, while promoting their product.

Arrington, you are not as good as you think you are. Need to work at being even more sneaky if you want to have a shot of conquering the ‘Right’ people. Also, I don’t understand why you are trying to ruin your blog, by being sneaky. Keep it real (have you figured out my name yet?)

By: Ujwal

Ujwal — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:18:24 +0000

Every one has an opinion. We are here to read Michael’s opinion.

Funny thing is if the post makes you think, then it has already done its job.

this post delivers !

Ujw
exoticbuddha.com

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:59:49 +0000

Bryan,

You and Scott have some serious obstacles. Pls. not another Escient…

By: David Bain

David Bain — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:28:47 +0000

If you are coming to NY, better wear your wool knickers– its colder than the proverbial witch’s nipple here. Can I host you for a hot cup of joe here at the top of the Empire State bldg?