Comments on: ChaCha, a people guided search engine

By: suranjana

suranjana — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:21:29 +0000

Hi, I am looking for building my chacha team. I will provide some tips to my referrals to ensure that they definitely pass their exam. So if anybody planning to be chacha guide then please mail me(suranjanaghosh@gmail.com) to join my team.
thanks in advance.

By: benedict herold

benedict herold — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:05:17 +0000

Thanks Dean… Hope you had tried ChaCha guided search by now…

By: Dean

Dean — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:59:02 +0000

Great site. Interesting post about ChaCha, since I hadn’t heard about it until now.

By: benedict herold

benedict herold — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:53:32 +0000

Another social site is on the way Hope it should be better than ChaCha..

By: Thilak

Thilak — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:23:14 +0000

From what I’ve heard from Jimmy Wales, Wikia Search would be human editable, which means.. search results could be given thumbs up or thumbs down (or probably something like that)

By: benedict herold

benedict herold — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:03:43 +0000

@Thilak,
I guess Wikia will go in different path… in ChaCha search is not human powered they are just human guided… human powered will end up something like dmoz.org. I’m not sure how they are gonna achieve that..!! I was not aware of the podcast with Jimmy..

@Saran,
Thanks for comments. It can’t be a rival but it will lead in another spectrum…

By: saran

saran — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:56:27 +0000

Hey Benedict, thanks for the review, especially your suggestion to improve chacha is good analysis. I don’t know it can be rival to Google..

Kind rgrds
Saran

By: Thilak

Thilak — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 04:01:26 +0000

Yeah, when I was at WikiCamp, Jimmy stressed upon the fact that Wiki Search is human powered and the algorithm is completely transparent. Will you join the interactive Podcast with Jimmy ?

By: benedict herold

benedict herold — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 21:42:09 +0000

Still Google can’t be beaten.I have noticed few ChaCha search guides are using Google for their searches

May be Wikia should come up with some other plans… you got any idea what their plan was all about?

By: Thilak

Thilak — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:20:21 +0000

Wikia is planning a similar attack on Google, When I was away for WikiCamp.. I was told this by Jimmy