Bing (search engine) Live services family, rebranding the service as Live Search. Live Search was integrated into the "Live Search and Ad Platform" headed by Satya Nadella, part of Microsoft's Platform and Systems division. As part of this change, Live Search was merged with Microsoft adCenter. A series of reorganisations and consolidations of Microsoft's search offerings were made under the Live Search branding. On May 23, 2008, Microsoft announced the discontinuation of Live Search Books and Live Search Academic and integrated all academic and book search results into regular search, and as a result this also included the closure of Live Search Books
ChaCha (search engine) April 2009, Rick Reilly spent some time working for ChaCha for an article on "ESPN The Magazine". ChaCha (search engine) ChaCha was a human-guided search engine. It provided free, real-time answers to any question, through its website, or by using one of the company's mobile apps. The company, founded in 2006 by Scott A. Jones and Brad Bostic, was based in Carmel, Indiana, United States, part of the Indianapolis metropolitan area. Its name comes from the Mandarin Chinese word "cha" (), which means "to search." ChaCha answered questions through the use of independent contractors called Guides. Guides were paid $0.02