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ChaCha cha

ChaCha is a search engine that adds a wetware filter: human "guides" field search queries. [Link]

I doesn't always work:

Using ChaCha can be easier and faster than using a smart phone. But it faltered when more than one step was required to answer a question -- like my request for directions to the McDonald's closest to my company's headquarters. The directions, which came a few minutes later, started from the correct address, but sent me much farther away than the McDonald's right outside.

Plus, I didn't get an address for the restaurant, just a direction to head down the West Side Highway and, inexplicably, go ''Left on Canal/Hoboken St.'' (there's no Hoboken Street in Manhattan).

jon posted this at 9:19 AM
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