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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago

Before Smartphones, an Army of Real People Helped You Find Stuff on Google

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Before Smartphones, an Army of Real People Helped You Find Stuff on Google

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago

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 remember using ChaCha. Good times
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  I made enough money on chacha one month to pay for some weed!

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