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Hitwise Gives Mahalo Search Share Update

Everyone knows that, when a graph's vertical axis goes to 100, whatever is plotted on it will look very different than if that axis went to 1,000.  So here's Mahalo's good news/bad news situation: a certain diagram makes its growth look astounding, yet it's still leagues behind Google, Yahoo, and even Ask.

Need Answers? Text ChaCha!

ChaCha recognized this trend and decided to make the most of the situation. The search engine is already unique with its community of human search guides, but today ChaCha announced it is launching a mobile service called textChaCha.  

ChaCha Gets Extra-Important $10M In Funding

In a series B round of funding, the Indiana 21st Century Research and Technology Fund showed its confidence in ChaCha by tossing in $2 million.  Morton Meyerson must really like ChaCha, though - he gave the human-powered search company $8 million.

Blinkx Tangos With ChaCha

Rising video search engine Blinkx will be funneling its media index into the half-humanized ChaCha search results. If you've forgotten about ChaCha (and most of us have, really), this is the engine on which searchers can enlist the aid of a live on-call human for assistance.

ChaCha Receives $6 Million To Keep Dancing

Google may own well over 50% of the search market, but there are still those who are willing to support other engines. A group of companies and individuals recently proved this by giving $6 million in funding to ChaCha, a "smart search engine powered by human intelligence."

ChaCha Beta Released; Users Seek Google

ChaCha, which describes itself as "the world's largest live search engine," is now available in beta form. The interesting feature is the defining one - ChaCha can supply "a human guide who assists you in real-time via an instant-message chat."