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(Unverified)Sep 1st 2008 8:22PM
Greetings from MiaMia. It's good to see such a genuine interest.
We're still in a BETA stage - heck, the website is still in the making (the proctologist is a testament to that...). Frankly, we didn't intend to let the public know yet - but the news appeared in European blogs because of obvious reasons, and then it spread like wildfire...
We have no interest in collecting nobody's emails or phones. Given the system's complexity, it is like using the Hubble to peek into your neighbour's window. If we wanted to collect the emails, why not use our datamining tools to crawl the web?..
The profit derives, as stated on the website, from the advertising, sales of custom MiaMia's and certain subscription services. This is all we can say on this point. If all the desktop search engines in the world use this model, why can't the mobile ones do it, too?
No, we're definitely not ChaCha nor its numerous clones. Some differences are:
* ad-funded, free to the user (typically a similar service charges around 1-3 USD per question)
* can be addressed via voice - invaluable for drivers and people with impaired vision. The latter would need a TTS on their phones for now, but we are looking to make it easier for them as well
* not limited to one country
* no need to download anything, subscribe or sign up
* semi-automation and machine learning
* auxiliary fully automated services, such as email /SMS forwarding. Maybe not much use to people with a mobile internet, but if you are a backpacker on roaming or with a SIM from a dodgy local network somewhere in a remote village in a developing country, 50 miles away from the closest internet cafe, and you just need to let your parents know you're alive and well, it's invaluable.
* there will be more features and foreign language support coming. Let's just say for now it's much, much more than you have now.
One more thing. While all questions are appreciated, please understand that we are not trying to build a Delphic Oracle, nor give advices on life and death matters. So people asking about the meaning of life, average size of penis, whether 9/11 was an inside job, how to cure cancer or do their homework: sorry, but we are not to tell you anything new here.