CNET Awards Yahoo, Google, ChaCha

CNET Awards Yahoo, Google, ChaCha

Indianapolis, Indiana - June 25, 2007 - The CNET Webware 100 Award, have been bestowed upon Google, Yahoo! and ChaCha search engines, for being some of the best Web 2.0 websites, among over 5,000 nominations in the national award program.

Scott A. Jones, CEO and Co-founder of ChaCha explained, ''We created ChaCha to provide an alternative search experience for people who were getting frustrated with the results they received from traditional search engines. 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.''

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 included Google and Yahoo.

ChaCha is a y new breed of search engine that injects human intelligence and technology into the search process. Users input queries, 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.

Co-founded by Scott A. Jones and Brad A. Bostic in 2006, ChaCha is offers users two options to search: with a guide or without. Both ways produce relevant results garnered from all the best resources on the deep web and from the top choices of more than 20,000 ChaCha guides. Rated as the ''#1 Search Engine of 2006'' by SEO Charles Knight and re-posted alphabetically by highly respected blogger, John Battelle (www.battellemedia.com), ChaCha is combining the best of technology with human intelligence. Jones is the inventor of the voicemail system used by over a half billion people worldwide and is the leader of other successful tech ventures including Gracenote (see www.scottajones.com). Bostic has led a number of high-tech start-ups.