Comments on: ChaCha Search More Fun for Pranksters than Searchers

By: Pagerank Checker

Pagerank Checker — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:32:14 +0000

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By: JMH

JMH — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:50:40 +0000

because Myspace is lame

By: learn to bartend

learn to bartend — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:45:06 +0000

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By: psk

psk — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:47:33 +0000

Well if the ChaCha is so bad, why ChaChasucks on MySpace has only 1 friend?

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Articles — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:30:34 +0000

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By: Lilly

Lilly — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:58:57 +0000

Very few, if any guides make $7-$10 at ChaCha. The new “Pay for Performance” plan is a real joke. It is a good idea, but the implementation is flawed. They base the pay now on Accuracy and Completion rates. The problem is they don’t have any system in place to measure Accuracy or Completion. They just expect Guides to accept when they get their pay cut to $0.10 a question. No one knows how Accuracy is measured and you don’t get any feedback on why you failed to make the “Top guide list.” It is sad really that some guides think this is a great place to work.

ChaCha is depending on the disabled and work-at-home moms for their workforce. ChaCha uses the same philosophy that the Rent-to-Own appliance centers and check cashing/cash advance stores use. Yes, I guess they supply a service, but the service does take advantage of others. As a mom with a husband that makes a bit over minimum wage, I’m in the same boat as the previous poster. I’m just not stupid enough to drink the ChaCha Koolaid and believe their crap!

By: Tim Lane

Tim Lane — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:10:10 +0000

Why was my post deleted? Coward.

By: KMS

KMS — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:15:56 +0000

I am a current ChaCha guide and just wanted to post that so many things you posted over a year ago are so different now. I love being a guide. I know I could make more money if I went out and got a “regular” job but then I would have to pay for work clothes, gas, childcare, etc… So honestly, this is a much better way for me to make money sitting at home. Yeah there are glitches and other things that do annoy me at times. But overall it’s a great system. I use ChaCha all the time as a user when I am out and need information. It’s great when I need driving directions, phone numbers, recipes, etc…. and I don’t have access to the web. I think ChaCha has grown tremendously and is striving to make the system more efficient and user friendly for guides and customers.

And I don’t make $5 an hour. I try to only do ChaCha at busy times (at night after the kids are in bed) and the questions come back to back. I can’t even get a break to click away when I need to some nights. I generally make $7-10 an hour. And again, it’s actually in the end a lot more than I would make paying for childcare for 2 full time and 2 after school, plus with gas prices and clothes, etc… I can’t make that much working outside the home. Plus I can do it whenever I want, however much I want.

So it sounds like in the beginning the system had it’s flaws but what new business doesn’t. No one forced you to do ChaCha and so if others are happy then so be it.

By: Jonathan B

Jonathan B — Mon, 26 May 2008 09:33:17 +0000

I recently became an SMS (mobile) ChaCha guide. I make $10-12 an hour, and am payed per search.
The mobile service is much more useful to people, because they can access information from anywhere, using only their mobile phones.
Granted, many of today’s phones come standard with internet access, but most of the guides I’ve gotten responses from have given me good information. The desktop response program sounds jacked, and I’m glad it didn’t have a chance to turn me sour.

By: ChaCha « Mick’s Weblog

ChaCha « Mick’s Weblog — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:30:36 +0000

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