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There was a startup called ChaCha that was a real live human answering every query in real time. They would chat with you and find you exactly what you were loo
by bricemo 5y ago
There was a startup called ChaCha that was a real live human answering every query in real time. They would chat with you and find you exactly what you were looking for. In the beginning it was amazing, but then they couldn’t figure out how to scale and quality went down.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChaCha_(search_engine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChaCha_(search_engine)
- Aachen 5y agoAren't only something like 15% of queries unique? A cache ought to help scale. Don't see it mentioned on Wikipedia what the issues were unfortunately. Interesting though, thanks for sharing.