ChaCha, the New Texting Revolution

411 and so Much More

It's Saturday night. You're out with your friends, painting the town red. However, you're hungry, and you want to check if your favourite restaurant is full before you drive all the way across town. Your only option is to dial a 411 number, which is either costly or automated. Besides that, it takes too much time to sift through numbers, and you are hungry now! Or you're having lunch with a colleague, and you get in an argument about who wrote The Republic. You don't have internet on your phone, but you don't want to wait to resolve the argument. Who will help? Or try one more scenario. You are at the movie store looking at a copy of The Pursuit of Happyness. Though you like Will Smith, your girlfriend is waiting at home, and you don't want to make her mad by choosing too macho a movie. You want to know more about the movie before you choose it. What to do? Dum da dum... Chacha to the rescue! Chacha mobile is a new service which allows people on any major cellphone carrier in the US to text a question to a real person, called a Chacha Guide, and receive an answer within a few minutes. The Chacha Guide will research the question on the Internet, then text an answer back to you. Essentially, Chacha acts as a free 411 service, but it offers much, much more than just phone numbers and addresses.

The best part is Chacha puts a real person on the other end, meaning you will get an answer relevant to your question instead of a bunch of information you have to sift through. And the Chacha Guides will try their best to answer any question you put through from sports to stock updates to business questions to random trivia. They will even make suggestions about what to wear on a first date or how to know if someone likes you. Also, they will always include a source website, so if you have internet on your phone, you can find out more about the topic. You can also save the website for later to look up on your home computer.