ChaCha! Anyone use it?

I'm a guide with ChaCha, so I was just wondering if anyone uses the services offered? For those not familiar with it, ChaCha is a search engine that is handled by live guides. A person will enter what they are wanting to find, and we (the guides) will find it and reply.

They have a text service as well (send your question to 242242 for free) as well as a toll-free line that you can ask your question and get an answer.

The site is http://www.chacha.com.

 

I have used it when it first started, but I faded away from it because I could easily create something that would make me a lot more money than working for chacha...(still thinking of how to do that big project..haha )

 

never heard about it before...sorry

 

It's really picked up now that they are doing SMS. The questions have been nonstop.

 

I used Chacha back when it was free. I used to chat it up with the guides, and I talked to one lady named Karen who was a Python programmer. She was pretty cool, but she said guides only get paid for a certain amount of time (I think 7 minutes) before they are working on their own time.

Now ChaCha is all locked down and hard to use, so I don't bother anymore. Used to be much better.

 

It was mentioned in the wall street journal today, pretty interesting.

 

I'm a guide but haven't actually worked as a guide in a while. Back when I did it I got a lot of prank queries and very few real queries. I may have gotten one or two real ones an hour and at 20 cents for one completed query it just wasn't worth my time.

I can't say that I have ever used the search engine but I guess it's useful for people that can use SMS but once everyone gets an IPhone or something like an IPhone then ChaCha won't really be needed any more.

 

Not really. But it's quite an interesting search engine in my opinion.

 

emm..first time heard about it.Will give it a try.

 

Just checking it out.....sounds good

 

Search is not so good
the text service rocks! Its helped me so many times when I was on the road

 

I think, the idea is really a billion-dollar-idea but it seems they lacked pretty much somewhere on planning part... they can make it really useful if they divide their "staff" into categories, like those who know/specialize with engineering knowledge should always be pinged when a similar query is made.... right now its like if someone is a fisherman by occupation, "chacha system" may randomly pick him to serve some user looking for the best gaming laptop available in the market

How could he satisfy his needs??

 

I am a ChaCha SMS Guide, I make alot of money using ChaCha, and I love getting paid to answer questions.

I log into the ChaCha universe at work, and leave it up in the background, it makes a little sound when I have a new question, I quickly search and answer it, and get paid.

I make about $50/day.

 

ya cha cha will work as an sms provider until google decides they want to provide the same service, then it's lights out cha cha... They do not even have an algorithm.... IMO it's a good idea "in theory", in reality it's not going to work once one of the big three decide to step in and get rid of them.