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ChaCha Dances Another Round Around Search

2011-01-25 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Doing the ChaCha

Indianapolis based, real time search service ChaCha has just closed another round of funding. According to the press, the human powered search engine startup gained another $3 million from investors to further expand their mobile product. ChaCha has so far raised a total of $75 in funding since its launch in 2005.

Tags: ChaCha, human powered search, mobile, mobile search, mobile travel, Online business, Qualcomm Ventures, Scott A. Jones, search engine, startup funding, startups, texting travel, travel technology, travel tools, VC

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