Posts Tagged ‘1-800-2-ChaCha’

Mobile Answers from 1-800-2-ChaCha

Friday, July 4th, 2008

No this is not a prank or a hoax number, and I’m not trying to coerce you into doing the Cha Cha slide either.  This is a legit mobile phone service, as weird as it may sound, and this might just be the next mobile phone “revolution.”  ChaCha’s ingenious new 1-800-2-ChaCha (800-224-2242) mobile answers service allows cell phone users to ask an extensive range of questions (in English) while on the go — and within minutes, will receive free answers via text message.

    What You Can Ask “ChaCha”

Who stars in the movie Juno?

How much is a Garmin Nuvi 360?

    Which hotels in downtown Atlanta have a business center?

What is the best Bluetooth headset store in the country? (Well … I may be biased!)

    • The ChaCha’ing Behind ChaCha
  • I was wondering the same thing … I mean, how does this whole thing work?  Well, ChaCha’s new service instantly routes each question to a human guide, which dramatically increases the type of questions you can ask.  The guide then uses Web search engines and quickly returns a relevant answer in a text message with a Web reference link.  Easy enough, right?!?!

      • According to the CEO of ChaCha
        “On mobile devices, traditional 411 has been the only easy to use option and it is limited to the basics of only finding a phone number or address,” explains ChaCha CEO Scott A. Jones. “More recently, desktop search engines have attempted to enter the mobile market by forcing users to enter a restricted query with their thumbs on a tiny keypad in a specific way, which causes most people to find other ways of meeting their information needs, such as calling a friend or waiting until they get to a computer, or, worse yet, making less-informed decisions. Using ChaCha is like having thousands of informed friends available by phone to help answer your questions 24 hours a day.”
        ChaCha is available on any mobile phone.  Yes that means even flip phones to the all-extensive smartphone.  Also, ChaCha was ranked as the “No. 1 Alternative Search Engine” in February of this year, according to ReadWriteWeb.  Along with Bluetooth technology, ChaCha’s mobile technology answering service is a new and upcoming tool that many people are going to capitalize on … I mean, the tool is so easy to use it’s almost like doing the ChaCha slide … 
    • More Details about ChaCha

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1-800-2-ChaCha — Answers All of Your Questions

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

No this is not a prank or a hoax number, and I’m not trying to coerce you into doing the Cha Cha slide either.  This is legit, as weird as it may sound, and this might just be the next mobile phone “revolution.”  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 English) while on the go — and within minutes, will receive free answers via text message.

What You Can Ask “ChaCha”

Who stars in the movie Juno?

How many calories are in a McDonald’s Double Cheeseburger?

Who won the 1965 Superbowl?

What hotel in downtown Atlanta has a business center?

—ChaCha’s new service instantly routes each question to a human guide, which dramatically increases the type of questions you can ask.  The guide then utilizes tools to search the Web and will quickly return a relevant answer in a text message with a Web reference link.  Easy enough, right?!?!

According to the CEO of ChaCha

“On mobile devices, traditional 411 has been the only easy to use option and it is limited to the basics of only finding a phone number or address,” explains ChaCha CEO Scott A. Jones. “More recently, desktop search engines have attempted to enter the mobile market by forcing users to enter a restricted query with their thumbs on a tiny keypad in a specific way, which causes most people to find other ways of meeting their information needs, such as calling a friend or waiting until they get to a computer, or, worse yet, making less-informed decisions. Using ChaCha is like having thousands of informed friends available by phone to help answer your questions 24 hours a day.”

More Details about ChaCha

ChaCha is available on any mobile phone.  Yes that means even flip phones to the all-extensive smartphone.  Also, ChaCha was ranked as the “No. 1 Alternative Search Engine” in February of this year, according to ReadWriteWeb.  ChaCha is a new and upcoming tool that many people are going to capitalize on … I mean, the tool is so easy to use it’s almost like doing the ChaCha slide …

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