Can ChaCha Find my Blog’s Identity?

Posted on Apr 21, 2009 by Joe in Social Media | 9 Comments

head-silhouette-with-question-markA couple weekends ago I was able to hang out with my whole family to celebrate my moms birthday!  We were all sitting around chatting and mentioned my blog’s identity crisis and wondered what my deal was.  My sister hannah who just bounced back from a blogging break, decided we should ask ChaCha if it knew my blog’s identity. I thought that was a great idea, text a question to ChaCha and get a reponse.  You’d think there wouldn’t be a more appropriate way to find my blogs identity.  And so, we set off to see if ChaCha knows whats up.

The Test

To start we thought we should compare ChaCha’s responses by asking  ChaCha who my siblings were.

Who is “my brother’s name”? ChaCha replied: “He is from the class of 2006 at Dublin Coffman High School. He is 6′4″ 180 lb. and played forward in basketball. ChaCha!”  Nice work ChaCha right on.  He might be bigger now tho, he is starting to scare me.

Who is “my sister’s name”?  ChaCha again on the money replied: “is a professor for Teach for America. Before that he Was a researcher for The Ohio state University. Keep on Chaing”  Again, ChaCha is right on – she did some awesome reserach at OSU.

So ChaCha knew my siblings, so I thought this was going to be the end of my blog’s idenity crisis because ChaCha would tell me!

The Moment of Truth

We asked ChaCha – “Who is Joe Budde Jr.?”   Frankly, I thought they would have just copy pasted from my about page.  But did ChaCha?

ChaCha responded with:  “No results were found for Joe Budde Jr. in the United States. Can we look up another person for you? ChaCha!”

Blog idenity crisis status: Blog Identity – Still Lost.

I feel like I am running around asking, Are you my mother?

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  1. Hannah says:

    Don’t take it too hard, ChaCha doesn’t know everything. I mean, ChaCha thinks I’m a professor. Pshhh…

    Hannah’s last blog post..Incorporating centers in the classroom

  2. Amy says:

    I wouldn’t be one to discount the power of ChaCha though. It answered many an elusive question on spring break 2K9. Mad props.

  3. Joe says:

    you would think a quick Google search by a chacha-er would come up with my blog. Obviously chacha has some room for improvement. I don’t discount its power in some situations, just in this case ChaCha was unable to release me from the chains of this crisis!

  4. V says:

    people are the ones responding so why not ask again! it always works for me…

  5. Joe says:

    Thanks for the comment V. Since you work for ChaCha (V’s email address ends with @chacha.com) I am hesitant to accept the fact that it “always works for you”.

    Full disclosure is now being added to my comment policy. Thanks for your help with defining the policy.

  6. Matt Welty says:

    I am loving the ever evolving comment policy.

    • Joe says:

      I am glad you like my comment policy. I cant wait for someone else to leave a miserable comment so I can make it even more robust!

  7. Kelli Garner says:

    Great site, how do I subscribe?

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