October 3rd, 2007
Every once in a while I go back to ChaCha (I only link to myself using the term ChaCha because they suck, and they actually have some sort of thing in their TOS there that says you are not allowed to link to their site using any other words other than “ChaCha”, “ChaCha Guide”, etc. [...]
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April 25th, 2007
Table of Contents: I. Introduction II. Press Releases and Articles III. New ChaCha Front Page “Enhancements” Scam IV. Pay Me Now Fees Scam V. Working for Free and Deactivations VI. ChaCha Archives When you get paid to work by the hour, and are punched in, the duties you are asked to do aren’t for free. [...]
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April 13th, 2007
Table of Contents: I. Introduction II. Press Releases and Articles III. New ChaCha Front Page “Enhancements” Scam IV. Pay Me Now Fees Scam V. Working for Free and Deactivations VI. ChaCha Archives This is one of the biggest ChaCha scams there is. This little scam charges each live guide a $2 fee EVERY time they [...]
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April 6th, 2007
Table of Contents: I. Introduction II. Press Releases and Articles III. New ChaCha Front Page “Enhancements” Scam IV. Pay Me Now Fees Scam V. Working for Free and Deactivations VI. ChaCha Archives ChaCha is a live guide powered search database. Guides work for less than minimum wage online and find information for people too lazy [...]
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March 30th, 2007
Table of Contents: I. Introduction II. Press Releases and Articles III. New Front Page “Enhancements” Scam IV. Pay Me Now Fees Scam V. Working for Free and Deactivations VI. ChaCha Archives The more I dug around about the pay lies in the press the more I seemed to find. So what you are going to [...]
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March 30th, 2007
The majority of people that have responded to my other article about ChaCha Pranksters as well as those that commented on the article at TechCrunch that linked to it, have looked at ChaCha from the technology standpoint more than anything. Most observe that they don’t think the service is all that viable, while ChaCha supporters [...]
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February 26th, 2007
A few months back I decided that I would sign up as a Search Guide for ChaCha simply to see what they had to offer searchers and get a bit of an inside look at the inner workings of the application. The concept is that “experts” in certain topics will be guides to those of [...]
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