Will search engine ChaCha defeat Google?
A true story:
I was just sitting in my easy chair having lunch and listening to my Queen’s greatest hits CDs (the concert was last night), when all of a sudden I wondered: how did Freddie Mercury die? (Apparently the guy last night was not really him…)
Not wanting to get up and walk all the way over to my laptop, I pulled out my cell phone and dialed 1-800-2ChaCha and asked them (on Voice Mail).
That gave me another thought, so I called back and asked them:
Can Google be defeated?
Here are the answers they texted back:
How did Freddie Mercury die?
Freddie Mercury died in November 1991 of AIDS.
Can Google be defeated?
Does Google have humans to answer your questions 24/7?
ChaCha is the search engine of the future!!!!
Any comments?
April 18th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
ChaCha defeat Google? you have got to be kidding me. I tried this service, once. Clearly, the person on the other end of the ChaCha had used Google to get my answer. Defeat Google? They are google.
April 19th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Excellent
April 19th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Hey Charles - Glad to see you are applying ChaCha to your everyday life! How was the concert? ChaCha makes it easy for anyone on any phone to simply ask a question in coversational English and get the answer. We do see strong evidence that people prefer ChaCha over alternatives on their mobile phones.
April 20th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Kudos to ChaCha for getting the right answer — I wonder if they realized it was the most important question they could get from their most important user?
July 8th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
I’m a ChaCha Guide and EVERY question is the most important question from my most important user. Also, every question has to be answered with factual data and in the quickest, most efficient manner.
July 9th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Hey rambn, ChaCha doesn’t use Google. ChaCha was originally a search engine like Google, and you can still use it. Then they added the thing where you can text them, which made it way better than having to look it up for yourself on Google or another search engine.