Indiana University Dumps Google for ChaCha

theodp writes "Come Monday, no more Indiana University searches will be powered by computer-driven Google. Only by people-powered ChaCha. The move was announced by new IU President Michael McRobbie, who until recently sat on ChaCha's Board of Directors (5-29 SEC filing, PDF). IU will draft hundreds of librarians and IT employees to be ChaCha Guides for the university's websites, although a FAQ accompanying IU's press release tells librarians not to expect any checks for their efforts from ChaCha, which IU notes is backed by Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Compaq founder Rod Canion."

Comments

KooL, Its Abt Time to Dump EVIL Google :)

[Tech.Luver]

KooL. Its really about time to dump EVIL google.

Fanbois(people that can NOT think independently & just like to follow herds/charismatic cult leader) ur hatemails are welcome. This applies to ONLY those who are.

Re:Interesting Concepts

[tkiesel]

Shill 2.0

Mix in just enough equivocation and try to hit that magic balance between healthy skepticism and mindless sycophancy.

Working hard to try and fly beneath the bullshit detectors out there. But you overplayed it, I think, with:

Ultimately I choose to pursue a different career path; it was a tough decision that I may grow to regret in the next couple years. I look forward to seeing the technologies in the development pipeline come to fruition.

Re:You can't spell "corruption" without IU

[Locutus]

yes, I found that he's been at IU for over 7 years and didn't just jump into the IU Presidents position from the board at ChaCha. And you're right, I was just shooting from the hip since there wasn't enough info in the article to determine otherwise.

BTW, it's just too easy to bash Microsoft and besides, they deserve every bit of it they get. That's a fact and not opinion. :-/

LoB