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ChaCha Chosen as Winner of CNET Webware 100 Award recognizing the best Web 2.0 sites.


People Powered Search Engine ChaCha Picked among the Best from over 5,000 Nominations in National Award

INDIANAPOLIS -- ChaCha (www.chacha.com), the breakthrough search engine that fuses human intelligence with technology, announced today that it has been named a winner of the first annual CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion.  Webware 100 Awards.

After receiving more than 5,000 nominations for inclusion in the Webware 100, CNET editors selected 250 finalists. Winners were then chosen by Web users, voting nearly half a million times to select the 100 top products (10 each in 10 categories) from the list of 250 finalists.

ChaCha was one of 10 companies chosen as winners in the Data category. Other winners include Google and Yahoo. A full listing of the winners can be found at www.webware.com/100.

"We created ChaCha to provide an alternative search experience for people who were getting frustrated with the results they received from traditional search engines," said Scott A. Jones, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  and co-founder of ChaCha. "We really just want to provide people with simple access to the best answers, and it looks like we're on the right track with what people want."

ChaCha is a revolutionary new breed of search engine that injects human intelligence and technology into the search process. Users simply input their query, in any form, and instant results are displayed that are the combination of the best of the Web and hand-picked "gold nugget a lump of gold as found in gold mining or digging; - called also a pepito.

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" results from ChaCha's vast community of 30,000 skilled search experts or "guides."

If additional assistance is needed, users can also choose to chat in real-time with a live ChaCha guide. ChaCha guides act as the user's "pit crew" to turbo-charge a user's Web experience. Through ChaCha's powerful search tools, they are able to give users much better access to all that the Web has to offer.

For more information about ChaCha, visit www.chacha.com.

About ChaCha

ChaCha is a breakthrough search engine that gives users more relevant and credible instant results because the content is hand-picked by our vast community of search experts. If you are unable to find exactly what you are looking for Looking for

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, you can work directly with a live search expert to narrow your search and get the answer you need. Created by serial entrepreneurs Scott A. Jones (www.scottajones.com) and Brad Bostic, ChaCha was rated the #1 Alternative Search Engine of 2006 by Charles Knight Charles Knight may refer to:
  • Charles Knight (publisher), an English author and publisher
  • Charles Knight (soldier) Lieutenant-Colonel of the 33rd Regiment of Foot during the Waterloo campaign
  • Charles Landon Knight, an American lawyer and publisher
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 currently of Read/Write Web, winner of the TechPoint 2007 Mira Award for best IT Innovation and a winner of the 2007 CNET Webware 100 Awards. ChaCha is funded by Bezos Expeditions, the personal investment firm of Jeff Bezos Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964 , Albuquerque ) is the founder, president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. Bezos, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University, worked as a financial analyst for D. E. Shaw & Co. , Rod Canion Rod Canion co-founded Compaq with Jim Harris and Bill Murto in 1982, investing $1000 in the company. Before co-founding Compaq Canion worked at Texas Instruments. Canion led Compaq as Chief Executive Officer through a decade of unprecedented growth. , founding CEO of Compaq Computer, and Jack Gill, legendary Silicon Valley venture capitalist Venture Capitalist

An investor who provides capital to either start-up ventures or support small companies who wish to expand but do not have access to public funding.

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Venture capitalists usually expect higher returns for the additional risks taken.
. For media inquiries, please contact Liza Dittoe of Dittoe Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most  at 317-202-2280 or liza@dittoepr.com. For more information, visit www.chacha.com.
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