In a series B round of funding, the Indiana 21st Century Research and Technology Fund showed its confidence in ChaCha by tossing in $2 million. Morton Meyerson must really like ChaCha, though – he gave the human-powered search company $8 million.
Blinkx Tangos With ChaCha
Rising video search engine Blinkx will be funneling its media index into the half-humanized ChaCha search results. If you’ve forgotten about ChaCha (and most of us have, really), this is the engine on which searchers can enlist the aid of a live on-call human for assistance.
ChaCha Receives $6 Million To Keep Dancing
Google may own well over 50% of the search market, but there are still those who are willing to support other engines. A group of companies and individuals recently proved this by giving $6 million in funding to ChaCha, a “smart search engine powered by human intelligence.”
ChaCha Beta Released; Users Seek Google
ChaCha, which describes itself as “the world’s largest live search engine,” is now available in beta form. The interesting feature is the defining one – ChaCha can supply “a human guide who assists you in real-time via an instant-message chat.”