ChaCha Strengths
- Can ask other humans questions and they will give you the answer back within 5 minutes
- Has a very large database
- You can apply to work for them and make money
Weaknesses
- It is hard to find the search tab
- You must join the site in order to use all of its great functions
Databases
- It is very large and ranks up there with Google and Yahoo
Operators
| Default operation | Keywords |
| Search operators supported | Parenthesis and Quotations |
| Proximity or exact phrase | It searches a proximity not the exact word |
| Truncation or stemming | N/A |
| Wild card | N/A |
| Other | Does not use AND or +/- |
Case Sensitivity
It is not case sensitive. I searched polish and Polish and the exact same results showed up.
Stop Words
There are no stop words you just have to file through the searches and find what you are looking for.
Advanced Search Function
There is no advanced search function.
Limits
| Date | n/a |
| File type | n/a |
| Field searching | n/a |
| Language | n/a |
| Family filter | n/a |
| Domain or site | n/a |
| Other | n/a |
Sorting
You can sort by searching the web, images, video, audio, and news.
Display
| Number of hits | no |
| Open in new window or tab | no |
| Cached pages | yes |
| Clustering | no |
| Thumbnails | yes on videos |
| Suggestions for refining/narrowing search | yes |
| Spell check | yes |
| Sponsored results identified | yes they are at top and highlighted |
| Update date | no |
| Other | n/a |
Help Function
They have FAQ's and you can ask a question if you are stuck and they will answer it.
Special Features
You can ask a real live person a question and they will answer it. You can ask it on-line or in a text.
1 comment:
Sounds good iv'e wondered a lot about CHA CHA and it was cool to see more of the inside of cha cha, and not just what I heard around.. not sure though if I'd get that kind of job
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