The search engine chacha.com has of course the ordinary search function: mathcing the words of the query with the words of the indexed documents, in some clever way. But it does also have a rather surprising search possibility: Simply ask a human using the chat window. Intrigued by the possibility I decided to test it with a rather simple query: Find the largest cities in the world and find out how many people who live there. So I wrote ”largest cities population” and hit the botton ”Search with Guide”. To the left in the chat column, I was connecting to my personal guide:

Status: Looking for a guide ...
Status: Connected to guide: KimberlyB
KimberlyB: Welcome to ChaCha!
KimberlyB: Hi there. I will be helping with your search.
You: ok how does it work?
You: I need an ovreview of largest cities in the world and how many inhabitants there are
Transfer: You are being transfered to another guide who can help you search even better!

Ok, so for some reason KimberlyB was not able to help me, maybe it simply got too personal. But luckily there were someone else at work at chacha.com:

Looking for guide ...
Status: Connected to guide: KellyT
KellyT: Welcome to ChaCha!
You: hi
You: I need an ovreview of largest cities in the world and how many inhabitants there are
KellyT: 'Hi! What age group are you looking for?
KellyT: Ok, let's see what I can find.
KellyT: There are the 100 largest. :)
KellyT: Is that what you needed?
You: perfect thanks a lot!
KellyT: You're very welcome.
KellyT: Thanks for using ChaCha!
You: pleasure
KellyT: Please RATE ME. Thanks for using ChaCha.
Status: Session ended.

The result of the process was the website worldatlas; I guess a good result given the query. But it is hard not to wonder if KellyT was using Google to find it ...