http://profy.com/2007/05/30/mahalo-human-powered-search-engine/ Internet news and commentary Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:24:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://profy.com/2007/05/30/mahalo-human-powered-search-engine/#comment-422651 What Is Going On At Mahalo? - Profy.Com Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:53:31 +0000 http://profy.com/2007/05/30/mahalo-human-powered-search-engine/#comment-422651 [...] Posted by Michael Garrett on April 1st, 2008 Ever since the "human-powered search engine" Mahalo launched (and even in the months preceding launch), the startup has dealt with its share of skepticism from critics. Of course the founder, Jason Calacanis (formerly of Netscape/AOL and Weblogs Inc.), has dealt with his share of criticism before, but it seems as if progress on Mahalo is being closely monitored by the blogging community as if it is doomed to fail. [...] [...] Posted by Michael Garrett on April 1st, 2008 Ever since the "human-powered search engine" Mahalo launched (and even in the months preceding launch), the startup has dealt with its share of skepticism from critics. Of course the founder, Jason Calacanis (formerly of Netscape/AOL and Weblogs Inc.), has dealt with his share of criticism before, but it seems as if progress on Mahalo is being closely monitored by the blogging community as if it is doomed to fail. [...]

]]> http://profy.com/2007/05/30/mahalo-human-powered-search-engine/#comment-17282 Svetlana Gladkova Fri, 01 Jun 2007 05:40:40 +0000 http://profy.com/2007/05/30/mahalo-human-powered-search-engine/#comment-17282 It is obvious that now many startups are competing in the search technologies field, some of them following the same approaches and Mahalo is definitely not the first human-powered search engine, there are other examples, too but all of them are not perfect. But how will we get the perfect search tool of the future without many competing teams working on them? BTW, do I get it right that you are among Mahalo competitors? If so, your behavior sounds like unfair competition to me, really. It is obvious that now many startups are competing in the search technologies field, some of them following the same approaches and Mahalo is definitely not the first human-powered search engine, there are other examples, too but all of them are not perfect. But how will we get the perfect search tool of the future without many competing teams working on them?
BTW, do I get it right that you are among Mahalo competitors? If so, your behavior sounds like unfair competition to me, really.

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]]> http://profy.com/2007/05/30/mahalo-human-powered-search-engine/#comment-17034 dave Thu, 31 May 2007 15:11:59 +0000 http://profy.com/2007/05/30/mahalo-human-powered-search-engine/#comment-17034 yeah, as if the google/yahoo/msn/wikipedia model is broken...come on. another pro-mahalo write up? won't anybody just <a href="http://www.passingnotes.com/archives/2007/05/30/mahalo-is-maha-fucking-stupid-also-causes-gas-and-cramps/" rel="nofollow">call them out for what they are?</a> yeah, as if the google/yahoo/msn/wikipedia model is broken…come on. another pro-mahalo write up? won’t anybody just call them out for what they are?

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