Ask and you shall receive—or maybe not
 Looking for a Walgreens on Michigan Avenue? Stumped on how many
championships the Bulls won in the '90s? Searching for the meaning of
life?
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Indianapolis gaining ground as 'cybercity'
 Indianapolis - It is the kind of news
that gets attention: Indiana mentioned in the same breath as San Jose
and Boston when it comes to creating high tech jobs. A new study lists
Indianapolis as one of the fastest growing "cybercities" in the
country.
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Can ChaCha's Humans Compete with Google's Algorithms?
 Scott A. Jones talks about the human-guided search engine, competition
from other sites, and how ChaCha embraces a Wikipedia-esque structure.
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Website of the Day: Cha Cha
 Everyone gets burning questions every once in a while, and it's usually
when you're out among your friends and you have a bet to settle. If you
don't have a smartphone to whip out and jump onto Wikipedia then ChaCha is your new, I-told-you-so best friend.
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ChaCha. Why wasn’t this around when I was in School?
 Man oh man, it sure would have come in handy on more than a few occasions!
ChaCha, the human powered search engine, is pretty nifty. I remember hearing about this a few months ago, but admit I had never actually tried it. The concept is this: you text a question to the ChaCha short code… any question, and minute or so later, sometimes less, you get an answer. I guess the best way to explain this service is a little Q&A. I know, I’ll just ask ChaCha to explain itself. I do this by texting questions to 242242(chacha). This will be the easiest post I have ever written.
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Click Report: ChaCha Answers Your Questions
 We've all been in a situation where we want to know the answer to a
simple question, but have no way of looking up the answer. That's where
our cell phones come in handy.
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Have a Question? Do the 'ChaCha'
 No question is too complicated, too bizarre or too random for ChaCha, a recently launched mobile answering service that promises quick and accurate answers to your inquiries via text message.
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REVIEW: ChaCha’s answers much better than anticipated
 Have you ever wondered who directed that
awesome flick “Hot Rod,” or who won the 1998 Giro d’ Italia bike race,
or if there is a cure for herpes? Well wonder no longer as the answer
to all these questions and more is now at the tip of your finger thanks
to ChaCha. (For those wondering: Akiva Schaffer, Marco Pantani and no,
but vaccines help.)
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Cell Services Keep It Easy, and Free
 You hear it all the time: “These cellphones are too complicated, by cracky! I don’t want to play music or surf the Internet. I just want to make phone calls!”
It may turn out, though, that these complaints are misdirected. Maybe the real problem isn’t new features — it’s the complexity added to the phones’ designs.
But what if there were a way to add features without changing the phone itself?
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CHA-CHA-CHA: It's a big know it all
 How old is Harrison Ford?
"Harrison Ford, born July 13, 1942 … age 65."
Will the Seattle Mariners be in the World Series this year?
"Seattle is in last place and unless they get to first place by midseason, they will not be in the World Series." Read more...
Search engine latest venture for voice mail inventor
Indianapolis - The economic slowdown is not slowing down one well-known Indiana entrepreneur. Voice-mail creator Scott Jones has a new deal and he's looking forward to a new venture.
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ChaCha: Get travel advice by text or phone
 Will ChaCha put concierges in danger of losing their jobs or will hotel
concierges use ChaCha to help guests when they’re stuck for an answer?
I’ve been testing this new quick and easy travel advice service for
travelers on the go, and it’s definitely hot.
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Speech Input, GPS Make Mobile Search Smarter
 When you're sitting at a computer, a good search engine puts the entire
Internet at your fingertips--but that probably isn't what you want when
you are searching from a cell phone.
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If You Have ChaCha, And a Cell Phone, You Have Answers
 If you're sitting in front of a computer, it's easy to look up information on the Web. It's almost as easy if you have a sophisticated cellphone with a decent Web browser and you're in a place with a good Internet connection where it's possible to type.
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Voicemail Inventor Scott Jones Sells Gracenote For $260 Million
 CARMEL, Ind. – If sealing a $260 million deal and having your flagship company positively profiled in the Wall Street Journal in the same 24-hour period doesn’t make your day, then you must live in an alternative universe.
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ChaCha praised in Wall Street Journal review
 Wall
Street Journal technology columnist Walter Mossberg writes in a column
today that the ChaCha Web browser is "a fun and useful service." Answers
supplied by ChaCha, the Carmel startup founded by tech entrepreneur
Scott Jones, generally were fast, accurate and useful, the influential
columnist said.
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Putting ChaCha's Answer Gremlins to the Test
Here at Gridskipper, we often hear about travel services that sound too good to be true. ChaCha, a recently launched phone and text-based service, falls into that category, at least at first glance.
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ChaCha Mobile Answers Working Well
I’m finding that I’m using ChaCha’s mobile answers service more
frequently. The reason is that it offers the opportunity to provide
less structured input. There’s also a human behind the scenes to
“disambiguate” the query and/or respond to more detailed information in
the request.
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Aunt Bee would have liked ChaCha
 Users call, text or e-mail a real, live human being with a question and he or she quickly and carefully researches it for you, delivering a snippet of personalized advice along with the single best Web site link to your mobile phone. Read more...
Will ChaCha defeat Google?
 ChaCha is useful even when you have a laptop nearby... Read more...
ChaCha Voted Best Consumer Mobile Application
 Indianapolis-based ChaCha recently won the AT&T Fast-Pitch Platinum Award for best consumer mobile application at the CTIA Wireless Association Convention in Las Vegas. Read more...
5 New Tricks for Your Cellphone
 Just dial 1-800-2CHACHA (1-800-224-2242), speak your information request, and the answer comes back in a text message in five or 10 minutes. Read more...
Mobile Text-Based Search Application ChaCha Wins AT&T Mobile Developer Contest
 ChaCha wins $25,000 grand prize and exposure to more than 70 million wireless customers at CTIA Show, 3rd Annual AT&T Fast-Pitch Program.
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Voice Takes Center Stage on Wireless Phones
Read your request through almost any wireless handset to a new service from an outfit called ChaCha. Read more...
ChaCha unveils voice search for cell phones
 As anticipated, Carmel tech startup ChaCha has launched a souped-up, 411-like service that lets users ask any question and get an answer via text message. Read more...
Souping Up a Cellphone for Maximum Multitasking
 A new service called ChaCha (www.chacha.com), which was demonstrated at the CTIA wireless industry show in Las Vegas this week, allows you to do Internet searches by asking a question over the cellphone. You dial (800) 2CHACHA or (800) 224-2242, pose the question and an answer is returned by text message. Read more...
The Next Killer Mobile App
 Amid the flashy keynotes and splashy phone launches this at CTIA Wireless, the mobile industry's largest U.S. trade show, countless people are toiling behind the scenes to bring new services to your cell phone. Read more...
ChaCha Launches New Voice Input
 The recent news that people-powered mobile search provider ChaCha is ramping up with the addition of two telecom veterans... Read more...
Irrepressible ChaCha inventor has leg up on giants like Google, Microsoft
 The holy grail of Internet search is to be able to pick up your mobile phone, ask a question and get back a spoken answer. Read more...
ChaCha's Industry Breakthrough Makes Searching Easy From Mobile Phones
 From the scoop on the hottest martini bar on the Vegas strip to advice on where to buy the cheapest gas in Manhattan, ChaCha's ingenious new 1-800-2-ChaCha (800-224-2242) mobile answers service allows mobile phone users to ask an extensive range of questions in conversational English while on the go -- and the free answers are texted back within minutes. Read more...
ChaCha Refocuses Business Model on Mobile Text Search
 Almost two years ago, ChaCha launched a service that enabled users to conduct a live chat with a "search guide" to aid in search engine queries... Now, ChaCha is refocusing its business to center around its mobile business. Read more...
Search Engine ChaCha Expands Mobile Service to Include Voice Input
 Human-powered search engine ChaCha launched in late 2006 to somewhat mixed reviews...Today the company has released ChaCha Mobile Answers (1-800-2ChaCha) that offers a voice front end -- making it like mobile 411 only much broader. Read more...
ChaCha Does Web Search By Voice, Answers By Text
Of all the numerous choices you have available to you for your Internet
searching, names like Google and Yahoo! stand out. There are some
worthy alternatives out there, though, most notably one called ChaCha,
which has an interesting alternative angle: All its searches are
human-powered.
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ChaCha is a Magnet for Mobile Search Talent
 Indianapolis-based ChaCha has deepened its management team with veterans of Sprint Nextel and IBM joining its Business Development team and Board of Directors. Read more...
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