Before Smartphones, an Army of Real People Helped You Find Stuff on Google
Before Smartphones, an Army of Real People Helped You Find Stuff on Google
Not too long ago, services like GOOG-411, 118 118 and AQA used actual humans to answer questions with witty responses and encyclopedic knowledge. Today’s search engines could learn something.
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I didn't even know about these services. It's fascinating they were relevant for about ten years only. What a good read.
I used SMS google search and SMS ChaCha, they were great at a time when mobile data was super expensive.
I remember texting chacha if every rose has its thorn, to which they would respond that according to the 1988 song released by Poison, every rose does have its thorn.
I can't remember so many things from that part of my life, why that stuck, no idea.
That's a fantastic song though. I didn't grow up in that era, but it's most of what I listen to these days.
I wasn't born till 89, so not my era either. But music comes from all eras. I think I spent half yesterday with Ain't No Sunshine stuck in my head. That was 71? I think
Great song to have stuck in your head
2 validations in a row. It's 9:41am here. It's going to be a good day. I hope you have a great one as well!
Totally forgot about ChaCha. Those were the days.
I had heard of them but had no idea there were so many of them or that they were so successful