We Stumped ChaCha

My friend is subscribing to ChaCha, and we had a good time testing it out. The first try was to see if it could define "peripheral neuropathy", which happened to be a test question my friend had received earlier that day. ChaCha's def was graduate level, and would have raised some eyebrows on an entry-level college class.

The second question was "what should I write my Scarlet Letter paper on?" The answer came back within 5 minutes, the idea was morality, which is a little banal but definitely solid.

Our third question was "how many party balloons could we fill with a ton of helium?" ChaCha took about thirty minutes to say it was hard to tell. Hmm, looks like the internet can't figure everything out...yet.

Do the ChaCha

ChaCha is a new text messaging service that is catching on quickly. ChaCha lets you text a question and it sends back a response shortly. Simple as that.

I was introduced to it about two weeks ago. A few friends of mine were trying to test the limits of what ChaCha would answer. I thought it was neat, but didn't get in to it until about a week or so later. Much like twitter, it is a valuable service, but doesn't quite have the revenue aspect worked out entirely.

CNBC reviewed the serviced here.


Great service, but it is about to get a lot of flack soon with the return of school this week. Imagine half the students in a classroom trying to use ChaCha during a test....