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Headline: Mobile Answer Service

Website: http://chacha.com/

ChaCha is a revolutionary new free mobile answers service for people on the go. ChaCha works with virtually every provider and allows people with any mobile phone device with normal SMS and voice capability – from basic flip phones to advanced smart phones – to ask any question in conversational English and receive an accurate answer as a text message in just a few minutes. With ChaCha, answers...More»

Address: 14550 Clay Terrace Blvd. Suite 130 Carmel, IN 46032 Map it »

Phone: 800-820-0827

Founded: 09/2006

Employees: 75

Industry: Consumer Internet

Sub-Industry: Search / Portal

Legal Structure: Corporation

Ownership: Private

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Date	Type	Capital Amount	Post-Money Valuation	Investors
01/2007	Series A	6M	Unknown	Jeff Bezos, Bezos Expeditions
11/2007	Series B	10M	Unknown	Indiana's 21st Century Technology Fund, Morton Meyerson
01/2009	Series C	11M	Unknown

Name:	ChaCha
Product URL:	http://chacha.com/
Date Launched:	11/2006
Description:	ChaCha is a search engine that pays human "guides" to answer questions for users. This is a technique known as social searching.
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User Opinions

Bullish Opinions (7)	Author/Date
These guys are going to succeed Add Comment	voipsipguru 02/16/2009	100% 1 vote 1 0% 0
Teriffic system. Works great! Add Comment	bbrunelle 08/09/2008	100% 1 vote 1 0% 0
Incredible "Universe" interface for guides, including myself, to answer text queries Add Comment	wms2106 07/23/2008	100% 3 votes 3 0% 0
I have used it and it has worked really well. Add Comment	green33 06/09/2008	100% 4 votes 4 0% 0
They retired the human powered search concept Add Comment	chuck 05/25/2008	100% 2 votes 2 0% 0
Mobile search will be a huge market Add Comment	green33 03/27/2008	100% 4 votes 4 0% 0
Co-Founders are successful serial entepreneurs Add Comment	green33 03/27/2008	100% 4 votes 4 0% 0

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Bearish Opinions (3)	Author/Date
human powered = high cost, low scale. has been tried before Add Comment	liberty248 11/22/2008	100% 1 vote 1 0% 0
Human powered search does not seem scalable Add Comment	dave 01/10/2008	100% 8 votes 8 0% 0
Some of the press surrounding this company has left me a bit skeptical Add Comment	applekid 01/10/2008	100% 4 votes 4 0% 0