Monday, July 14, 2008

ChaCha, anyone?

I have discovered something I have been looking for all my life, it seems: a legitimate excuse to spend a truly ridiculous amount of time online.

ChaCha!

Never heard of ChaCha?  Well, it's a free query service, where the user texts his or her question to ChaCha (242-242) and a few minutes later gets an answer back, as well as a link to a website with more info (for users of fancy Smart Phones).  Where does the answer come from?  A real live person sits at their computer, the question pops up on their screen, they look up the answer, type it out, include the link, and voila!

Who are these magical internet searchers?  ChaCha Guides!  Bored people who want an excuse to sit at the computer and watch TV, answer the occasional question, and oh yeah, get paid!  It's not a lot... but you get $0.20 per answer, and the questions come fairly quickly depending on the time of day.  So, I say this will at least make up for my lack of a part time job a little bit.  Right?

It does come in handy now that Andrew is officially in a summer school night class for 4 hours a night, 4 nights a week.  I've been sitting here watching TV and answering such questions as "what number president was Martin Van Buren" and "what oscar did Tom Hanks win in 1995" and "who did courteney cox play on friends".  Um, without looking, 8th (1837-1841), Best Actor in a Leading Role for Forrest Gump, and Monica (Geller) Bing.  Duh!  60 cents, baby!

I'll keep you posted on how this new venture goes.

1 comment:

HuckCrowley said...

Never heard of ChaCha, but it sounds like a nice way to make some extra change.

So have you answered over 1000 questions? That's the only way to make over $200 at $0.20 per question, I would think.

How does one handle the taxes on ChaCha income?