Search Engine is one area where inspite of huge success of “GOOGLE” lots of improvements can be made. The next generation of search is already toying with the idea of using the Tagging concept. While Human Intelligence powered Search results can be the another approach. Already Yahoo Answers, Microsoft QNA and Google Answers have taken a step in this direction. Now Comes ChaCha, Search with a Guide, an effort by two dynamic entrepreneurs, Scott Jones and Brad Bostic. ChaCha is a smart search engine powered by human intelligence, which prevents you from sifting through millions of results and rather deliver the result what you are looking for. These results are delivered by real humans who are knowledgeable about the very thing you are looking for.
Apprentice, Pro, master and elite are the four levels of guides available in ChaCha. The performance of these guides are both rated by the system and the users. These guides can earn up to 10$ per Hour for their effort to answer the questions asked by the user. One thing that we observed about ChaCha is that since it is in Alpha Stage, it takes a bit of time to return results. The ChaCha team has to work out on this. The ChaCha Underground where the articles are indexed and stored works comparatively better. Currently Sports and Business section have the maximum number of guides(150+). If you wish to become a ChaCha guide it is only through invitation. Let us wish the ChaCha team all the best and probably in the coming years let us see if the dictionaries use ChaCha to indicate Search. Keep Moving Chacha