I found an interesting new search engine. What makes it different you ask? They provide a human guided search assistant! You have two choices, a “ChaCha Search” and a “ChaCha Guided Search”. The guided search is a live person to help you with your searches. I invite you to check it out here: ChaCha Search and post your comments on the new search engine.
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This was my attempt at using it.
Status: Connecting …
Status: Looking for a guide …
Status: Connected to guide: DerekC
DerekC: Welcome to ChaCha!
You: this is my first search, just checking it out
You: how’s it work?
DerekC: you tell me what you want to find and i go get it for you and send you links
You: hows it different than a regular search engine
You: i was searching for cincinnati web design
DerekC: alright one moment please
You: okay, you can stop now
You: how do you determine the rankings
DerekC: by keywords
You: I’m an SEO and my site is that second one
You: do you do backlink checks or have any algorithm type checks
DerekC: no
You: is there a spam filter for too high of a keyword density?
DerekC: no
DerekC: Please RATE ME. Thanks for using ChaCha.
Status: Session ended.
It’s different, but not something I’ll probably ever use again. It takes way too long and they according to this guy they go by the highest keyword density. He logged off immediately after answering my last question so I didn’t get to ask him if he had to sort out the spam by hand or any of the hundreds of other question I would’ve followed that up with.
Yep I have since read stories about them suggesting paid links etc. This won’t work in the long run for them. Did you rate DerekC?
Justin