How many times have you searched for anything and felt that there should be a person in the search engine who could actually understand your need and help you out by presenting search options and results that are most relevant. Scott Jones and Brad Bostic were not satisfied with the way today's search engines functioned so they devised Chacha.com a wholly new and innovative approach in search engine technology.
The approach of Chacha is that when you search, you search with a 'Search Guide' who will either be an expert in the area you are searching or at least an expert in Internet searching. The site is still a Beta test version and the number of guides seems to be increasing steadily. (It took us 4 different search queries to get hold of a guide.) The biggest advantage of Chacha is that you can actually phrase a proper question and because the 'search guide' is human, your question will be understood much better than by a conventional search engines. This also means that people can not search for anything illegal and if anyone uses profanity in the chat session, the person can get banned from Chacha. Chacha is also self improving because it indexes all questions and their accepted results.
At the end of the search session you are taken to a feedback form where you can rate the 'search guide' as per his performance. And if you want to become a guide you can apply online too.
http://underground.chacha.com/
become guide - http://www.chacha.com/info/guidesignup
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
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