Mahalo started up recently. If you haven’t heard about it, it is Jason Calacanis’ most recent way to make a fortune on the internet.
It is a human-powered search engine. Mahalo has real people decide what should show up when somebody searches for a term like Playstation 3.
If they haven’t built a search results page for that search phrase, they give some suggested search results pages they have created that might be similar and then list results from Google for the actual phrase you were looking for. You can see it for the phrase “be a good dad“.
It is a pretty interesting concept and could be a pretty interesting resource if they can get enough good people to build the results sets.
It is interesting and fun. I don’t expect it to change the search world but who knows.
It is in alpha right now. That’s not even beta yet. Calacanis posted a couple Tweets asking for somebody to create a Mahalo.com Wikipedia page since his kept getting deleted.
Apparently, somebody was able to get it done.
Since when did Wikipedia become a press release site for alpha websites. Silly. Sad.
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