It never really occured to me how bad people can be at searching the web until I met “SusanL” at Cha Cha.
Actually, I knew my friends and family were bad at getting the results they wanted out of searches, but I thought it was just them. 🙂
Apparently, most people have trouble at least on certain subjects where they don’t know the lingo well enough to put good search phrases together to get what they are looking for in the results.
Enter Cha Cha: A search engine with real human guides (as opposed to fake human guides) that help you find what you are looking for.
According to SusanL (a real live guide at Cha Cha who helped me because she has a friend named Jack Humphrey) each guide has their own keyword group specialty and will pick up search requests in their specialty to find things more quickly for visitors.
How It Works
So, you do a “Search with Guide” and someone will come on and help you find what you are looking for, presumably faster than you could by yourself.
It makes sense. I can search on internet marketing and promotion-related topics like the back of my hand.
I know the lingo and can return results the first time, in most cases, for exactly what I am looking for.
Search Is Better When You Know How – Or Know Someone Who Does
People will find what they are looking for faster when it is something in their experience range where they know the intricacies of the language spoken, say, in horticulture circles.
That just popped into my mind, but I’d have no idea how to find things fast in that arena.
Which makes Cha Cha a darn good idea that I, once again for the 5th time today, wish I had thought of first!
Make sure that when you search with a guide that you are ready for a real person. I was kind of dumbfounded for some reason that someone would actually be on the other end waiting to help with such a mundane task.
But I am starting to see that this could be a very useful service.