ChaCha

ChaCha: human guided search

by alec on February 6, 2007

ChaCha is a new web search service which pairs human guides with searchers to more precisely target search results.  With 29,000 guides, it uses human experts to augment the search engines capabilities.  The idea shows enough promise that Amazon’s Jeff Bezos put in six million of his own dollars.

A review of the service from the MIT Tech Review gives mixed results, however. 

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