CARMEL, Ind. – Back in early 2008, the excitement around ChaCha Search Inc. seemed warranted. An exuberant Scott Jones, a pioneer of voice mail technology, was at the helm of the young Q&A-service ...

ChaCha, an Indianapolis-based search startup, has raised $10 million in second-round funding. Morton Meyerson led the deal, and was joined by return backers Bezos Expeditions, Rod Canion (founding CEO ...

Back in early 2008, the excitement around ChaCha Search Inc. seemed warranted. An exuberant Scott Jones, a pioneer of voice mail technology, was at the helm of the young Q&A-service company.

Mobile question and answer startup ChaCha is on a roll, possibly achieving profitability, raising boatloads of money, and even venturing into social media with a Facebook app. Today, ChaCha is getting ...

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos became a billionaire by using technology to automate a task (buying books) that used to be intensely intra-personal. Now he’s plunked down millions of his own dough to ...

More than 20 percent of ChaCha.com?s traffic during the first half of 2011 came from mobile devices as on-the-go consumers increasingly look to the mobile Web for quick answers to their questions.

ChaCha has announced that its Q&A engine has reached several milestones — the most notable perhaps being that the Q&A engine answered its billionth question. The question, which I believe can be seen ...

ChaCha, which was one of the early Q&A or social search sites, is something of a survivor. It started out in late 2006 audaciously challenging Google with chat-based human-powered search and then ...

Last Friday, I wrote a Monkey Bites post about ChaCha.com, a guided search service that's trying out an innovative approach to paying its hired help. They've instituted a debit card program that ...