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Digging up the Past with New Search Engine “Decipho”
Posted on December 14th, 2006Decipho launched today claiming to be a new social search engine. As always I look up my name to see what dirt comes up.
You will see my previous job’s demo website. Which sucks ass in basic SEO. We all have to start somewhere. Also you will see a shot of my old car. The best find was an article about how I got blasted by a car in college. Funny thing is I found it once a long time ago and recently i tried to find it on Google and Yahoo with no success. Why did Decipho find it? Got me, but check out the article:
ISU student victim of hit and run
Reggie Lualhati
The Daily IlliniA young man was a victim of a hit and run accident early Saturday morning at 1:21 a.m., according to a police report.
The young man — Stephen Peron, a 19-year old student at Illinois State University — was out with his girlfriend, freshman in LAS Kelly Vetrano, and two other friends.
He was released from Carle Hospital Saturday morning, without serious injuries.
Vetrano said they had just gotten off the bus and were talking on the corner of First and Daniel streets for a couple of minutes. She said Peron was the first to attempt to cross. He first looked to the left, and as he checked to his right, he was hit by a northbound car on First Street, Vetrano said.
“We didn’t see the car (coming) at all,” Vetrano said. “The car was pretty close to the side of the road.”
Senior in FAA Briana Nyman said she and a friend junior in LAS Chris Ruth were driving south on First Street and saw the group of people trying to cross.
Ruth said it seemed that “one of the guys kind of wandered into the street.”
At about the same moment, Nyman, sitting in the passenger seat, said she witnessed a northbound white sedan that “seemed to be going pretty fast.” She then said she heard something getting hit.
“I heard the sound of an impact and looked in the rear view mirror and realized that a boy was hit,” Nyman said.
She added that the car did not stop and continued traveling north on First Street.
Ruth said they immediately pulled over to see if they could help.
The police arrived on the scene first, and Ruth provided them with an eyewitness statement. He described the car as larger, possibly a sedan. He said the curves indicated that it was a model from the early 1990’s — maybe a Ford Taurus or Pontiac Grand Am.
The police report stated that the officer measured a distance of 67 feet from the point of impact with the hood of the car to where Stephen was found lying in the street. The officer reported finding windshield glass on the street.
The officer also reported visiting Peron at Carle Hospital, where he was taken by ambulance. According to the police report, Peron had scratches on his upper body and a large cut on his forehead. It also read that Peron had admitted to “consuming five or six beers during the evening.”
Peron was treated and later released without serious injury.
Vetrano said her boyfriend is improving.
“He’s moving around a lot better,” Vetrano said. “The car seemed to be going about 40 mph … he’s pretty lucky.”
The police report also stated that “no one at the scene could provide any information of the driver or possible passengers.”
Vetrano said that as of earlier in the week, the police haven’t found anything and don’t have any leads.
That is right i flew 67 feet bitches! Even spider man does not have that kind of skills.
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Cha Cha on Good Morning America
Posted on October 2nd, 2006Looks like Cha Cha was on good morning america this morning. Looks like I will finally have some people to search for. The last week it has been really slow. Here is the email that Cha Cha sent to us to get us perpared for the media exposure:
Good Morning America!
Well Steve , Get Excited!
We have done such a great job together, and the people at Good Morning America have taken notice. The segment will apparently air Monday October 2nd around 7am EDT all about ChaCha and being a Guide!
This means that we are going to have a phenomenal amount of traffic tomorrow. ChaCha is making history and you can be a key part of this. We need you to log into the system as much as possible tomorrow particularly in the early hours, although we expect high traffic all week. We want to give all of our new users a great experience. So get out there and do what you guys are doing so well already: Let’s ChaCha!
Invites
Because of some issues that we need to clear up on our end, we will be turning off the invite a guide function for a short period. Check back Thursday, October 5th for this feature to be available again.Keep up the fantastic work!
–Sara, Your ChaCha Host
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My CHA Cha experience.
Posted on September 21st, 2006ChaCha is the new human driven search engine. It was launched a few weeks ago and I jumped all over it to become a guide. Guides starting pay is $5/hr and will increase over time.
You probably wonder how I became an guide? There are posting on Craig list, but I just went to the search engine and asked “How do I become a ChaCha Guide?”. Shortly after one of the guides told me to give them my email address. The next day I received an email with an invite link. That night I went to the link registered and then downloaded the program. My excitement was soon shot down when I logged in and found it full of bugs. The training I had to go through kept giving me the same training videos. Over and Over! WOW they are annoying! The host is the really bubbly girl that almost made me drop the whole idea.
After a week on emailing support they finally got the bugs fixed and I was up and running. So far I have made $1.75. Woooohoooo! Well not really, but more of a social search experiment. I will keep you post on my progress and if you want to be a guide email me and I will get you an invite.
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