Monday, January 8th, 2007 by Andy Beal
ChaCha-Ching! Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Among Group Investing $6 Million in Human-Powered Search Engine
It looks like we’ll be hearing more of human-powered search engine ChaCha as they today announce they have secured $6 million in private funding. The group of investors includes…
…Bezos Expeditions, the personal investment firm of Jeff Bezos, with additional participation from Rod Canion, founding CEO of Compaq Computer, and Jack Gill, veteran Silicon Valley investor, founder of Vanguard Ventures and current partner at Maven Ventures
ChaCha launched in September 2006 and claims to have 20,000 people signed-up as user guides. They don’t reveal how many people are actually using the search engine, but claim they have “already garnered user traffic at levels that exceed many first generation search engines”. Anyone care to guess what that number would be?
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JHeist Says:
January 8th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Funny – 20,000 editors, and one source called ‘Sponsored’ which dominates over 50% of listings. Incredible how they try to do something special, yet they try to monetize the crap out of it.
Friday Favorites 1/12/07 - Stuntdubl - Search Engine Marketing Consultant Says:
January 12th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
[...] Chacha gets funding – reported by Andy – Jeff Bezos is making a wise investment. Ironically enough I sat next to Brad Bostic on my plane ride to SES San Jose – and told him most the ways SEO’s would likely try to game his engine. They actually have a pretty cool idea – and is a good engine to watch, if one of the big three doesn’t buy them out first. On a related note – Trexy is pretty cool too. [...]