Winner of 2008 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for
Product Innovation, ChaCha now has more than a
million users and has answered more than 27 million queries since it its launch January.
This,
combined with its quarterly growth rate in Q2, makes ChaCha the fastest
growing mobile search service, surpassing both Google and Yahoo in both
WAP and text-based search growth rates (according to the latest data
from Nielsen Mobile).
ChaCha increased its market share in the U.S. mobile search market
to seven percent, tying for second place with Yahoo at the end of June
2008. ChaCha also exited the quarter with an 800 percent growth rate,
compared to Yahoo's 200 percent growth rate.
ChaCha is definitely on its way up the food chain. With that amount of growth the sky is the limit! They came up with something new by having humans behind the scenes instead of trying to make a computer interpret everything.
Comment from Wireless and Mobile News:
"Having humans behind the scenes," is the way things used to always be done, back in the day. Wouldn't it be great if we could talk to a human googlebot and find out what it's thinking?
BTW Wireless and Mobile News has humans behind the scenes...:)