ChaCha Blog

I apologize! I’ve been a little delinquent in updating the ChaCha Blog. And not because nothing has happened, but because so much is happening we don’t have time to slow down. Let’s get caught up: Here’s what’s been going on and what people have been saying about us.

“Introducing ChaCha Search” from ClickZExperts

First, ClickZ is a great site. Second, they wrote a very nice article about us, and yet another person has positioned us as David to Google’s Goliath (heretoforth referred to as Googliath). ClickZ focuses a lot on Internet marketing and advertising, so they delve into our ad model and provide some good insight.

“There are additional benefits media buyers are sure to appreciate as well. Because search results are provided by human guides who are instructed never to return inappropriate results, advertisers needn’t worry about their ads being associated with negative content. The same can’t always be said for ad network or contextual advertising buys, which have on occasion aligned an advertiser with undesirable site content from mildly inconvenient to utterly appalling results.”

Click here to read the whole article.

“ChaCha: A Threat to Google?” from the IT-Director blog.

We’re often cited as being a “threat” to Google or as some other colorful adjective to Google. This gentleman, Robin Bloor, gives his reasons why he thinks that. I’m glad that people are already considering us to be “in the ring” with Google, but we’re just a baby and we have a long way to go before we can even hold a candle to them. I will say, however, that our growth has been much more accelerated and impressive than some of our competitors and we’re not even fully baked. This portends an great amount of success for us when all of our ducks are in a row and we’ve got everything we have planned executed.

“I used it for several days, and then, believe it or not, I gave up using Google. I’ll go to Google if ChaCha fails to find me what I want, but it hasn’t happened in a week.”

Click here to read the whole article.

“Ballmer Won’t iPhone Home” from eWeek

This article has nothing to do with us really. It’s really a vignette set to a Silicon Valley backdrop… with cats… Anyway, I won’t make you read the article (even though it’s quite entertaining). Here’s what they said about us:

The Furball fumbled with some finger food as another pal mentioned ChaCha.com, a search engine that recently received funding from Bezos Expeditions, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos’ personal investment firm. Touting itself as the first human-powered search engine, the site offers real-time search assistance from ChaCha personnel via instant messaging. “Mmm, why do I picture myself at 3 a.m. sending the ChaCha guide queries like ‘Are you alone’ and ‘What are you wearing?’ ” tittered the tipsy Tabby.

Click here to read the whole article.

“Going Beyond Google, With Guides” from Business 2.0

Last but not least, behold: Business 2.0. I’m a little extra-thrilled about this one because I’m a big fan of Business 2.0. Personal bias aside, this is probably the most interesting read of the lot. If you want to get a little peek into the future of ChaCha, download this PDF.