Posts Tagged with ‘human-powered’

By now we all know how lucrative the market for human-powered search engines has become. There's About.com (which has started to show its age), the indecisive Mahalo research engine, the mobile-focused ChaCha, and even newcomer Stumpedia.
Now, there is yet another new service aiming to implement the human element into a search engine, but Site605 claims a difference in offering "a combination of man and machine can go where neither could individually." You're might be thinking that Mahalo [...]

Mahalo is a human-powered search engine. Currently they have over 4,000 of the top English search phrases mapped with their own pages, and by the end of the year they hope to have 10,000. It’s a five year project, and this is only their fifth month. With Mahalo you are guaranteed to never run into any spam and to only get quality results, since each page is written by actual people and not algorithms.
The Guides, or page writers, also help [...]