You’re looking for something on Google, but you’re just not finding it. Page after page of search results turn up nothing. Arghhh! All you want is the URL of that site where people post pictures of their cats and you get to rate them, like a hot-or-not site. What is the name of that thing!!!

Couldn’t it be cool if you had a REAL LIVE PERSON to help you search? Now you do! Introducing ChaCha Search– the People Powered Search.

Here’s how it works: surf on over to www.chacha.com, type your search query into the box and then click on Search With Guide. On the left hand side of the next page will be a nifty little chat box with a real person hanging out inside (virtually.) They get paid $10 an hour to help you search. It’s pretty interesting. And it’s free for you!

UPDATE: I failed to mention that I think, from a purely MBA perspective, that chacha.com (regardless of how novel it is), will ultimately fail. I predict it will be offline in 6 months. Three reasons why: 1- it doesn’t scale well, 2- it’s a solution looking for a non-existent problem, and 3-the guides are not horribly helpful.