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ChaCha was featured in PC Magazine this morning! The print version of it will hit the news stands on Monday.

Searching with a Partner
09.27.06
Sebastian Rupley

Are the responses you get back from search engines all over the map, so that you have to sift them to find what you were looking for? Scott Jones, an entrepreneur from Indiana, wants to change that with his new ChaCha search engine.

Jones helped reinvent voice mail in the 1980s, and owns a slew of patents. “Over 600 million people now use the voice mail technology I invented,” he says. His proposition for overhauling Web searching is simple: introduce living participation. Human assistance in searches has occurred at sites such as Ask.com, but ChaCha mobilizes armies of paid human assistants who specialize in certain topic areas. Unlike other efforts to include human intelligence in the Web search process, and unlike Yahoo! Answers, ChaCha provides guides who help searchers in real time.

Go to PC Magazine to read the rest…