ChaCha Wins CNET Webware 100 Award

Press Release

INDIANAPOLIS (June 19, 2007) –ChaCha (www.chacha.com), the breakthrough search engine that fuses human intelligence with technology, announced today that it has been named a winner of the first annual CNET Webware 100 Awards.

After receiving more than 5,000 nominations for inclusion in the Webware 100, CNET editors selected 250 finalists. Winners were then chosen by Web users, voting nearly half a million times to select the 100 top products (10 each in 10 categories) from the list of 250 finalists.

ChaCha was one of 10 companies chosen as winners in the Data category. Other winners include Google and Yahoo. A full listing of the winners can be found at www.webware.com/100.

“We created ChaCha to provide an alternative search experience for people who were getting frustrated with the results they received from traditional search engines,” said Scott A. Jones, CEO and co-founder of ChaCha. “We really just want to provide people with simple access to the best answers, and it looks like we’re on the right track with what people want.”

ChaCha is a revolutionary new breed of search engine that injects human intelligence and technology into the search process. Users simply input their query, in any form, and instant results are displayed that are the combination of the best of the Web and hand-picked “gold nugget” results from ChaCha’s vast community of 30,000 skilled search experts or “guides.”

If additional assistance is needed, users can also choose to chat in real-time with a live ChaCha guide. ChaCha guides act as the user’s “pit crew” to turbo-charge a user’s Web experience. Through ChaCha’s powerful search tools, they are able to give users much better access to all that the Web has to offer.

For more information about ChaCha, visit www.chacha.com.

Source: ChaCha