Talk:ChaCha (search engine)

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Articles for deletion This article was nominated for deletion on 2006-09-06. The result of the discussion was delete, but the decision was overturned by Deletion Review on 2006-10-29.


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[edit] AfD

This article should not be deleted based on a month and a half old four-person AfD. I believe the subject is now notable enough to be included in Wikipedia. Although it should probably be under ChaCha (search engine). -- goatasaur 15:39, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

If anyone is planning on deleting this again post a NEW AfD request before doing so. (e: revote not nec.) Subject of article has changed considerably since September 6th, which was less than a week after the website launched. ChaCha currently has over 5000 guides, and many users, with an expected 50,000 guides by year's end. -- goatasaur 15:55, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge from Scott A. Jones

Please merge any relevant content from Scott A. Jones per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scott A. Jones. Thanks. —Quarl (talk) 2006-12-29 06:28Z

[edit] Prank Searches

As the site gets bigger, more and more people are pulling prank searches for fun on ChaCha and posting them around the 'net. It seems to be a phenomina big enogh to be worth mentioning.

Feel free to add that information with a proper source if you'd like. --Maxamegalon2000 21:59, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

I am pretty sure global troll community will discover chacha soon, and hopefully this will take some heat off wikipedia: bugging a live person is much more fun than to blank wikipages. :-) `'mikka 22:25, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Lollerz, pranking the guides must be at least 8x as fun as blanking Wiki's. Luksuh 22:59, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

-Not really, we can't make them see shock images.


Added something about pranking. Spread the good word! Citation-ish used. Hard to find citations for prank percentage. For the record, ChaCha was not helpful in finding this number. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pictish (talk • contribs) 23:34, 13 February 2007 (UTC).
Shouldn't ChrisB or someone be put on this? --Clorox (talk) 01:11, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] logo

Doesn't the logo of ChaCha have a little stamp thing on it that says, "BETA" on it? I saw it at the website. ANNAfoxlover 19:55, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] chacha issues

i wanted to add chacha's public discussion policy but it was removed, also how in the past chacha's search time dropped from an infinite amount of time to 6 minutes of searching. Lastly, regarding the prankster issue, i included a link to a 3rd party opinion piece about ChaCha search engine that discusses this issue in detail. but all was removed.

ChaCha themselves will not cooperate in disclosing this information. This article is not balanced and seems to be a promotional article on chacha. --Icobi 18:35, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anti ChaCha sentiment on the web

we need to document the anti chacha sentiment that's growing from current and ex guides. This wiki page shouldn't just be a promotional peice on chacha. There are many controversial issues regarding this search engine that need to be addressed. Anybody agree? Icobi 07:54, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Actually, we shouldn't document the sentiment until a secondary source documents it first. If you can find some reputable sources on these controversial issues, feel free to add them to the article. --Maxamegalon2000 16:09, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

what kind of source is reputable? I found this on Associated Content. would this count as a good source? --Icobi 20:00, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Human Search Engine" revert-war

This is spilling over from a discussion about the term, and the fate of the Human Search Engine page itself (see its talk page and AfD for details). DMacks (talk) 07:43, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

The site itself doesn't mention human search engine at all, it uses social search. Until otherwise, I believe that it should be changed back to social search. Jac roeBlank 21:18, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
The press refers to ChaCha as a human search engine. Below is one of many instances where they do this:
http://frostfirebuzz.com/chacha-recevies-8-million-funding-but-will-need-a-lot-more-real-time-human-search

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.154.110.167 (talk)

In all content of that article, it is a "human-powered search engine"—the title is the only place it's "human search engine". Editors (who are sometimes people not familiar with the topic) often omit words from key phrases when writing titles. DMacks (talk) 16:25, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cancel Account

ChaCha does not have any way to cancel your account and when i contacted them to do so, my email was ignored. Can we create a section about this? Simon.uk.21 (talk) 01:42, 8 February 2008 (UTC)