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ChaCha Says They’ll Bail On T-Mobile
The big SMS startups like 4INFO, ChaCha and others are seething at T-Mobile’s plans to charge $.0025 per SMS sent over it’s network. Currently these services generally pay a third party a set fee per month to send SMS messages, and their business model is dependent on fixed pricing. At ...
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ChaCha Turns To Facebook To Socialize Questions And Answers; Rolls Out API
Mobile question and answer startup ChaCha has been able to turnaround its model, possibly achieve profitability, and raise boatloads of money, much to our surprise. Today, ChaCha is rolling out a Facebook application allows users open access to questions and answers from both ChaCha and all of their friends. With ...
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ChaCha Makes Its Crazy Business Model…Profitable
We’ve always had a lot of fun with Indianapolis-based startup ChaCha. They launched in 2007 as a human powered search engine – meaning a human found you answers when you typed in a query. Pranksters, obviously, loved it. And we noted the high cost of hiring humans to basically do ...
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ChaCha Raises Another $7 Million
Human-powered mobile answers service ChaCha has raised $7 million funding, according to an SEC filing. The company has confirmed the funding but declines to name investors. This brings ChaCha’s total funding to nearly $70 million. ChaCha has been the subject of a little bit of ridicule at TechCrunch since ...
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Guides May Be Less Likely To Dance To ChaCha
Human powered search startup ChaCha has been the subject of a little bit of ridicule at TechCrunch since its launch, thanks to its entertaining snafus and some issues with its business model. Despite its various problems over the years, the company has been able to raise a boatload of money, ...
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ChaCha Beats Google and Yahoo in Mobile Voice Search Tests
But was this a fair fight? Mobile analyst firm MSearchGroove has just published the results of a series of tests which show that the mobile search service ChaCha beat out two other voice-enabled search applications on the iPhone when it comes to search query accuracy. [ Update, Ed: a commenter ...
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Wow. ChaCha Is Raising Another $30 Million (Update: Confirmed)
ChaCha, the human-powered answers service we’ve written about quite a bit here on TechCrunch, is raising a Series C round of $30 million, of which close to $11 million has already been secured according to a regulatory filing, reports peHUB. The filing doesn’t list any new shareholders. Update: we exchanged ...
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ChaCha And Aardvark: Putting Humans To Work To Get You The Answers You Need
Two startups, ChaCha and Mechanical Zoo, are taking different approaches to tap human intelligence, and human labor, and get you quick answers to your questions. Despite attempts to evolve search into something more human friendly, there’s still a big hole there. As useful as Google is, it doesn’t answer questions ...
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ChaCha Ditches Guided Search Model. I Love To Hate This Startup
Well it only took ChaCha fourteen months to figure out what everyone except ChaCha (and these guys ) knew when it launched - search with a human guide as a business idea is ridiculously stupid. The idea is that you do a search on ChaCha and a real person ...
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