Via Slashdot: Indiana University Dumps Google for ChaCha.
“Come Monday, no more Indiana University searches will be powered by computer-driven Google. Only by people-powered ChaCha. The move was announced by new IU President Michael McRobbie, who until recently sat on ChaCha’s Board of Directors (5-29 SEC filing, PDF). IU will draft hundreds of librarians and IT employees to be ChaCha Guides for the university’s websites, although a FAQ accompanying IU’s press release tells librarians not to expect any checks for their efforts from ChaCha, which IU notes is backed by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Compaq founder Rod Canion.”
I took a quick spin around the Chacha search site, and the first thing I noticed was that there are a lot of advertisements in the search results. Big turn off.
Interesting. I noticed about two weeks ago that Cha-Cha had taken over the Indiana government website.