Comments on: ChaCha And Aardvark: Putting Humans To Work To Get You The Answers You Need

By: George

George — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:09:39 +0000

http://www.picanswers.com is a cool website for picture questions and answers.

By: ArticleSave :: Uncategorized :: ChaCha CEO Has Pretty Damn Sweet 8-Monitor Computer

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 07:06:56 +0000

[...] Jones, the CEO of human powered voice/sms search engine ChaCha (our recent coverage), has one of the awesomest computer setups I’ve [...]

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ChaCha CEO Has Pretty Damn Sweet 8-Monitor Computer | Webtrendblog.com — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:03:14 +0000

[...] Jones, the CEO of human powered voice/sms search engine ChaCha (our recent coverage), has one of the awesomest computer setups I’ve [...]

By: ChaChaのCEOのコンピュータは19″モニタ8基, シュウィンの自転車付き

ChaChaのCEOのコンピュータは19″モニタ8基, シュウィンの自転車付き — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:54:58 +0000

[...] （本誌の最近の記事）のCEO Scott [...]

By: ChaChaのCEOのコンピュータは19″モニタ8基, シュウィンの自転車付き

ChaChaのCEOのコンピュータは19″モニタ8基, シュウィンの自転車付き — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:54:58 +0000

[...] （本誌の最近の記事）のCEO Scott [...]

By: ChaCha CEO Has Pretty Damn Sweet 8-Monitor Computer

ChaCha CEO Has Pretty Damn Sweet 8-Monitor Computer — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:00:56 +0000

[...] Jones, the CEO of human powered voice/sms search engine ChaCha (our recent coverage), has one of the awesomest computer setups I’ve [...]

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By: Yaja

Yaja — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:17:37 +0000

Ajay, the problem with your logic is that ChaCha is still hiring, not only in Carmel, but in New York City as well as other metro areas. Guess you should’ve checked out the ChaCha.com’s career section before heading over here.

By: John

John — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:50:04 +0000

click on my website for the article on ChaCha’s layoff.

By: Bah!

Bah! — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:20:18 +0000

Once again you fail to mention an even better service than ChaCha called Mosio http://www.mosio.com. It’s human powered as well and even better, it’s community-driven. Plus there are no caps on the number of questions you can ask per month.

It’s ok, you can’t cover everything, but it seems silly to leave them out of a post like this.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:30:15 +0000

I hope I’m not too late to comment… Is there still room to get on the ChaCha bandwagon or did I miss that too?

Michael, why the change of heart on ChaCha? You were so right originally when you were dogging them for having a terrible business model and that they’re a joke.

Let’s see, “bob insider”, things must be going great there if they already laid off 10% of their employees. CrunchBase has them down for 70 employees. (They also have them down for “deadpool” back in April… sounds about right.) Tell me, what is canning 7 pee-ons going to save them compared to the ridiculous cost of their bread and butter… yeah… the mobile questions themselves?

Let’s do some math here: 500,000 questions a day at 20 cents a guide… oh hell, let’s say they were just paying 10 cents for every question. That’s $50k a day! And $1.5 million a month just in guide salaries! Yikes!

The math doesn’t add up if they’ve just raised $16M to fund this sinking ship over the last 2 years.

My guess is they ran out of money a long time ago and are lucky to have a millionaire founder who can float them some cash. Looks to me like they’re having trouble finding funding and if they do, it won’t be enough to cover those crazy costs! Probably will just go to paying him back.

Or maybe they can get rid of a few more people who make $50k a year. That’ll keep their lights for one more day for each person they can. Brilliant!

Michael, I hope you go back to writing what you originally thought. I think you were dead on back then. Keep up the good work!!!

By: Food for thought « In The Stacks

Food for thought « In The Stacks — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:53:05 +0000

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By: bob insider

bob insider — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:58:31 +0000

I used to work there for a while – have several friend still there and some that were let go.

By: Jason K

Jason K — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:03:46 +0000

Yo, Mike, I think you got the info wrong. ChaCha is not limiting 20 questions per month, they are limiting 20 guided question per month but the rest of the questions (weather, stock quotes, jokes, etc) can be asked unlimited.

By: AC

AC — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:41:31 +0000

For real? Did you get the info from Mahalo’s CEO?

By: LibrarianLiz

LibrarianLiz — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:12:55 +0000

Why not call the library? They’re there to answer your questions. They have access to databases and books as well as the internet. Plus, it’s free and you can ask as many questions as you want. Seems sort of obvious.

By: Duke

Duke — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:05:55 +0000

Hm, Google does good job with search. However, getting answers from strangers may be useful but only in certain contexts e.g. like on praxias.com where you ask oracle to help you with certain problem.

By: Travis Reeder

Travis Reeder — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:15:55 +0000

You might want to check out our patent pending application, http://www.sidestripe.com , to get immediate answers from your friends while searching (ie: when you are looking for it). And the beta is open to the public right now.

By: bob insider

bob insider — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:27:32 +0000

i think ChaCha had Layoffs on 11/3/08 – maybe 10% gone

By: Chris Butler

Chris Butler — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:19:35 +0000

I’m not sure whether I find the service interesting or not, 118 118 and others in the UK have been doing this for a while usually as a value-add to other services. What I do find fascinating is the quantities of money apparently raised. I’d love to see the revenue model! It astonishes me that ‘me too’s’ and (as with the case of e.g. LinkedIn) revenue nay-sayers or apologists can still continue to raise huge sums of VC.

At WeCanDo.BIZ we have a solid revenue model and we know exactly where we are going and where our funding is. We are 100% privately owned and growing at an astronomical rate….. so it is possible….still!

I would welcome anyone to come and take a look and compare our value (for example) to that of a service for people a little too lazy to ask proper questions or indeed to just go read stuff!

Chris Butler
COO
WeCanDo.BIZ

By: Kristoffer lawson

Kristoffer lawson — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:36:52 +0000

Hmm, I like the number 242…

By: Adam Martin

Adam Martin — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:19:35 +0000

Cha cha my aardvark disgruntled humanoid web drones, Qajack the bastard offspring of Poker and Google, that let’s you ‘play with what you know’ is going to put humans to work for themselves and reward them.

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links for 2008-11-03 « 個人的な雑記 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:01:42 +0000

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By: sam

sam — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:54:24 +0000

if someone asks a subjective, conversational question they expect an opinion in return. it’s the quality that is difficult to moniter, i’m saying ChaCha has the right idea.
If I ask “what’s the best food?” I want a good answer, but I expect it to still be conversational not necessarily objective.

By: Techpapp

Techpapp — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:29:10 +0000

Q: Who is the greatest fucker in Silicon Valley?
A: Michael Arrington!

Simple