• gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    At this point, it seems like google is just a platform to message a google employee to go google it for you.

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      5 months ago

      Does anybody remember “Cha-Cha?” This was literally their model. Person asks a question via text message (this was like 2008), college student Googles the answer, follows a link, copies and pastes the answer, college student gets paid like 20¢.

      Source: I was one of those college students. I never even got paid enough to get a payout before they went under.