For most of 2009, SMS-based, human-powered question-and-answer service ChaCha has made surprising leaps up Nielsen Mobile’s rating of mobile search services. ChaCha, which uses inexpensive freelancers ...

You wait all this time for one HTC Facebook phone, and two turn up. Hot on the heels of our HTC Salsa review last week comes this, the HTC ChaCha, also announced back at MWC 2011 in February and ...

NEW YORK – With no fear of the confusion that can arise from text-message shorthand, a new search service is employing a novel tool to answer queries sent by cell phones: human beings. Having a person ...

In 2006, Scott A. Jones co-founded ChaCha.com, a search engine that uses human guides to answer queries. Now they’re expanding to the mobile space, allowing users to call or text their nuanced ...

(CNN)-- You're in a bar with a group of friends when an argument breaks out about Neil Diamond's age. Your friend is positive that he's, like, a hundred. You know he can't be more than 70. With no ...

When you think Internet innovation, a shopping mall in the Indianapolis suburbs is not the first place that comes to mind. But in just such a spot — in a storefront that might, in other circumstances, ...

Indiana-based question-and-answer startup ChaCha announced today that it’s received $7 million in new funding. The company was founded in 2006 as a cross between Ask.com and the Mechanical Turk: Users ...

ChaCha's voice search comes out on top when matched against Google and Yahoo's voice-enabled search applications on the iPhone, according to a performance analysis by MSearchGroove. Both the Google ...

Mobile Q&A answer service ChaCha is shedding one third of its employees. We’ve confirmed with the company that it laid off 25 people, leaving it with 56 employees. ChaCha cited the layoffs as ...

I was surprised this evening to receive an email from the ChaCha communications team about a new feature they’ve just launched. I say surprised because we have not been kind to the service in our ...