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Sign up at ChaCha Search (chacha.com) and you can be one of the real, live humans who help people search topics on the Web. Never heard of a search engine guide?Okay, say a dad wants to buy his teen a video game but has no idea what's new and interesting. At ChaCha, he could instant-message a guide who knows games and get a dozen examples of the latest and greatest. ChaCha is free to users, just like Google and other search engines.
As a guide, you choose your topics, says Scott Jones, ChaCha's CEO and chairman. Users rate you on your performance, and your pay varies from $5 to $10 an hour, depending in part on your ratings. If you sign up other guides, you'll also get 10 percent of what they earn.
Elizabeth Lessard, a guide in Litchfield, New Hampshire, earns about $300 monthly for about two hours of work a day. "To make any kind of money on my own time is amazing," says Lessard, a stay-at-home mom.
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