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www.chacha.com
About ChaCha
ChaCha is the ultimate fusion of computer technology & human intelligence. Live human guides are available to provide additional assistance. - The human brain.
ChaCha's goal is to provide a better search experience by combining results that are hand-picked by our knowledgeable human guides with the best computer-generated search results. In those cases where you can't find what you need with our instant results, ChaCha will connect you with a live human guide who will find the information for you through an instant messaging-style search session.
Scott Jones and Brad Bostic, two dynamic entrepreneurs who were not satisfied with millions of irrelevant search results provided by first generation search engines, believed a better experience could be created by tapping into human intelligence. Since starting ChaCha, they have been hard at work with the ChaCha team to create:
A smart search engine that "learns" by tapping into human intelligence so its results are always improving
A place to find exactly what you're looking for instantly
Help from people who are knowledgeable about the very thing you are looking for when instant results don't have the answer
Remember, ChaCha is all about making the web more accessible, by giving you the most relevant results you need. And with ChaCha, you get great results instantly and you have the option to search with a Guide who can help find your result. So come join our experiment and have some fun!
The Founders
Scott Jones, CEO & Co-Founder
For more than two decades, Scott has created companies that have produced over a dozen award-winning industry firsts. He revolutionized the modern workplace in the mid-1980s, when at only 25 years old, after forming his first company, Boston Technology, he invented the voicemail system that is now used by nearly all telephone companies around the globe.
He also created Escient which later transformed into
Gracenote which is one of the first companies to develop music recognition technology. Another venture Scott founded is
IndyRobotics, LLC creating one of the world's premier self driving vehicles, Indiana's Robotic Vehicle (IRV).
Brad Bostic, President & Co-Founder
Brad is responsible for refining the Company's strategy, developing its business and operating plans, and guiding the team to execute on its key business objectives. In 1997, Brad founded
Bostech Corporation as a custom software development and consulting company.
In 2001, Brad transformed Bostech into an enterprise integration software provider through a strategic acquisition of technology installed in more than 2,000 companies around the globe. Bostech's ChainBuilder technology has since become one of the most widely embedded integration platforms in the retail, healthcare, and energy markets, and continues its technology advances into the standards-based Service Oriented Architecture space with
ChainBuilder ESB. He also founded
NearMed, a provider of physician services and technology to healthcare providers via telemedicine. Brad graduated from Indiana University.
Why the name ChaCha?
People often ask how we picked the name. The answer is that it has a dual meaning. First, "Cha" means "search" in Chinese. Second, the ChaCha is a popular, fast-paced dance.
Therefore, we are named ChaCha because we are the only search engine that allows people seeking information to instantly connect online with live ChaCha Guides that lead them (much as they would in the dance) to the most relevant results on the Internet.
ChaCha - A new way to search
ChaCha Search gives you the BEST computer-generated search results on the Web instantly.
But that's not all. To make its results different and better, ChaCha includes results that have been hand-picked by our human Guides. Computers keep getting smarter, but they don't have brains - ChaCha's human Guides bring the Internet's best results to you instantly.
And if you still don't get the results you need with our instant search, unlike any other search engine on the planet, ChaCha will instantly connect you with a live ChaCha Guide (Search With Guide) who can help you. How's that for VIP service? And it's still free!
ChaCha Guides
By searching with a Guide your query is sent to a real person who is skilled at finding information on the Internet and knowledgeable on the subject at hand so that you get the few exact results you want, not the millions of results you don't.
ChaCha only provides quality, human approved results.
The more you use ChaCha, the smarter and faster ChaCha becomes! Because ChaCha saves, rates, and updates all the answers that are hand-picked by our Guides. ChaCha's intelligent Guide application learns from every search so our Guides know where to look to find information for you quickly.
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