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Holy crap! This is great. I mean, you can abuse it lightly or it can really help you, but you can decide.

 

Some copy pasta:

 

 

http://www.ChaCha.com

 

 

ChaCha has set out to create a better search engine. Scott Jones and Brad Bostic, two dynamic entrepreneurs, were not satisfied with millions of irrelevant search results and thought there could be a better experience. The ChaCha team has created:

 

* A smart search engine powered by human intelligence.

* A place to find exactly what you're looking for without sifting through millions of results.

* Intelligent search results from people who are knowledgeable about the very thing you are looking for.

 

ChaCha is all about making the web more accessible, by giving you the most relevant results you need, and it's your choice whether to search with or without a guide.

 

The actual search engine sucks balls, but the human side works quite well. It seems to me that each guide with choose a few areas that they have a lot of knowledge in and will receive alerts when someone searches for a related subject while they're logged in to the system. You should be careful about what you search for, though.

 

***End copy pasta***

 

Okay, if you play jokes on it be careful, cause I belive they can ban you via IP, and they'll probably just ignore you if you try to piss them off.

 

But here is my chat:

 

 

Status: Looking for a guide ...
Status: Connected to guide: ValerieS
ValerieS: Hi there. I will be helping with your search.
You: hey
ValerieS: Good evening! What can I help you search for today?
You: I can't turn off my computer
You: Like, my grandson told me that pressing the wrong button will break it, so...
ValerieS: Ok, rather than send you resources, let me tell you to hold in the power button and count to 5 very slowly.
You: ok
ValerieS: That should shut it down and won't hurt it.
You: doing it now

 

:D

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These people cannot take a joke.

Status: Looking for a guide ...
Status: Connected to guide: Dawnh
Dawnh: Hi there. I will be helping with your search.
Dawnh:What are you looking for this evening?
You: I will not buy thiz record it iz scratched!
Dawnh: What record?
You: Ya!  Uh...My hovercraft is full of eels.
Dawnh: Do you have anything important to search for or not?
You: If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?    
I...I am no longer infected. 
Dawnh:Thank you for using Cha Cha.
Status:Disconnected.

EDIT: Yes, they do ban your IP, apparently asking how to rub out stool pigeons is not in line with site rules. Oh well, some of us are competant enough to do our own searches.

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AngelaS: I found some forums, do you want them, they talk about the diffrences

AngelaS: These are sites I am sending now, not forums

You: sure

You: forums are fine

You: I found out about chacha.com on lucasforums

AngelaS: Really?

AngelaS: That's great!

You: yes

You: so I thought I'd try it out

AngelaS: The sites I just sent you are not forums, but I will send the forums now.

You: thanks

Status: Session ended.

 

haha, that was fun.

 

Great find TiE :p

 

EDIT: Man, I'm too nice to people, but lookie here:

 

StacyC: Hi

StacyC: What can I search for you/

StacyC: ?

You: I was searching for some information on hyperthreading technology

StacyC: okay great

You: and how it will progress in the future

StacyC: one moment while I search for you

StacyC: ok lets see what i can find

StacyC: I appreciate your patience while I find exactly what you need.

You: of course

You: I still find it hard to believe that you're not a bad

You: *bot

You: sorry about that

StacyC: thats okay

StacyC: lol

StacyC: I'm not

You: I can tell

StacyC: :)

You: okay I'm sure if this question is "allowed" but how did you get into this?

You: seems like it'd be a fun thing to do

You: working for chacha I mean

StacyC: It really is

StacyC: yes

You: how did you become a part of it?

StacyC: you can send an email to guide@chacha.com

StacyC: it is by invite only

You: i see

StacyC: i will send you a link about becoming a cha cha guide

You: and you have to get lucky?

You: thanks

StacyC: its a great job i really enjoy it

You: you don't get paid though or anything

StacyC: yes you are paid for your searches

You: oh whoa

StacyC: its a job

StacyC: yeah

You: hahha I would do it for free

StacyC: yes i probably would too

You: I enjoy helping people

StacyC: i do too

StacyC: check out those sites about hyper threading

You: yeah

StacyC: i will send the cha cha site to u know

StacyC: now sorry

You: those last two are nice

You: thank you very much

StacyC: one moment

StacyC: 1 more

You: oh okay

You: are there set hours you have to work?

You: or is it based on whenever you come online?

StacyC: no whenever you want

You: wow, that's great

StacyC: that last site has the form

StacyC: yes 24/7

StacyC: all day everyday

You: thanks!

StacyC: you'll enjoy

StacyC: please rate me

You: sounds good

You: I will

StacyC: yep thanks

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Status: Looking for a guide ...
Status: Connected to guide: CrestonC
CrestonC: Hi there. I will be helping with your search.
You: ok 
CrestonC: hello
You: yes i need to find myself 
CrestonC: i see your intrested in myself
You: no me 
CrestonC: yes you
You: not you, me 
You: i want to find me 
CrestonC: is there a seach that I can help you find?
You: search for me 
CrestonC: one that pertains to the web
You: i need to find myself 
CrestonC: sure I can try to help you with that
You: i dont know where i am 
You: i need guidance 
CrestonC: What is your name? So that I might be able to help you find your self?
You: i need to find myself 
You: i dont want you to know who i am 
CrestonC: yes you ahve said that
You: that way you would find me 
You: and i dont want that 
You: i want to find myself by myself 
CrestonC: Thanks for coming to ChaCha! Give me a moment while I do all your searching for you!
You: so what do i do in the mean time? 
You: if your looking for me, who am i looking for?
Status: Disconnected

 

How come I got a guy and not a girl like everyone else? I just wanted some one to talk to anyway

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Anyone else get two people helping them? :p

 

Found a difficult one:

 

Status: Looking for a guide ...

Status: Connected to guide: SimonW

SimonW: Hi there. I will be helping with your search.

SimonW: How can I help you?

You: Cool!

You: ok, so... I've done a little hunting of my own...

SimonW: alright

You: and I've only found one place where they've got the script for Serenity... the movie, right?

You: but there's a problem with it...

You: it's only the dialogue and therefore I can't count it as a real script

SimonW: Alright

SimonW: you want action also?

You: since it doesn't explain even a little of what's going on in the scenes

You: yes

You: and if you can find something like that, I'll love this site forever :)

SimonW: one moment please

You: long moment... ain't easy to find, is it?

SimonW: Of course not

You: no, cuz if it were easy, I wouldn't be here :p

SimonW: It might not even exist on the internet

You: that's what I'm afraid of...

SimonW: But let me continue to search

SimonW: I'll try my best to find it

You: I appreciate that

SimonW: My pleasure

SimonW: I think I found something

You: ooh! cool!

SimonW: Let me give you the results, one moment please

SimonW: Check if thats sorta what you are looking for

You: not exactly... that's just a few extra scenes... they're entertaining though

SimonW: Alright

You: maybe I'll have to put in a request to the imsdb

SimonW: maybe i don't see any screenplay written for it

You: yeah... the only thing I found was http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/s/serenity-script-transcript-joss-whedon.html

You: and that's just the dialogue

SimonW: yeah i found that

SimonW: I didn't bother to add that to the results

You: you found that one pretty quick, didn't you? So did I

SimonW: yes

SimonW: the last link

SimonW: try to request for it

SimonW: its the best place for it I guess

 

 

Last thing I heard from SimonW... I found it mildly entertaining that I was searching for a Serenity script and got hepled by Simon :p

 

Transfer: You are being transfered to another guide who can help you search even better!

Looking for guide ...

Status: Connected to guide: JosephV

JosephV: Hi there. I will be helping with your search.

JosephV: Hello, you're looking for a copy of the Serenity script?

You: yeah

JosephV: Let me see if I can help you with that..

JosephV: Still searching. This is going to be a tough one..

JosephV: So far, I have found this dialogue transcript. Let me see if I can dig up something else..

JosephV: If you're interested, I moved the transcript link to the top of the results.

You: think I already have that one...

JosephV: Okay, then I'll continue searching..

You: thanks, though

JosephV: It's really hard to find online, but I'll keep trying. The best I've been able to do is find the screenplay for sale online at Amazon.

You: well I'm writing fanfiction about the movie, so if worst comes to worst, I can just rent the movie and take it scene by scene...

JosephV: This link at the top of the results is the book at Amazon I was talking about. It's supposed to have the shooting script.

You: oh! Cool!

JosephV: But it's difficult to find online for free, I guess because of the publisher asserting their rights.

You: yeah well that's the definition of a right... they can do that, I guess

JosephV: I think that the amazon listing and the dialogue transcript is pretty much the best I can find.

You: well I think that's better than I did

You: so I won't complain

JosephV: Okay. I really wish I could've more. :(

You: meh, it's fine... I'm satisfied that you managed to find more than I did

JosephV: Can I help you with anything else?

You: that's what counts :)

JosephV: Thanks. :)

You: sure...

You: I think I'm good for now

You: I'll be sure to come back

JosephV: Okay. Have a great weekend, then. :)

You: you too

JosephV: Please RATE ME when you see the five stars. Thanks for using ChaCha.

Status: Session ended.

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