Posts Tagged with ‘chacha’

By now we all know how lucrative the market for human-powered search engines has become. There's About.com (which has started to show its age), the indecisive Mahalo research engine, the mobile-focused ChaCha, and even newcomer Stumpedia.
Now, there is yet another new service aiming to implement the human element into a search engine, but Site605 claims a difference in offering "a combination of man and machine can go where neither could individually." You're might be thinking that Mahalo [...]

The field of "human-powered" search engines already seems to be too crowded with Mahalo, Wikia Search, Sproose, and ChaCha (which has now decided to focus on the mobile search frontier). All of these, however, still use bots, algorithms or a staff in one way or another in order to function as desired.
Stumpedia, on the other hand, claims to be "human-powered" and actually seems to be the only such engine to be completely at the will of its users. It's homepage [...]