Posts Tagged with ‘mahalo’

Facebook fatigue. Have you heard the phrase? Are you suffering from it? Where once I logged into Facebook first thing every morning to check status updates and new links from tech-minded friends, I can't tell you the last time I logged in. And I no longer seem to get friend requests, although I regularly find adds on FriendFeed and LinkedIn.
Today is the first anniversary of the launch of the Facebook Platform, and it was marked with the official announcement that [...]

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 [...]

The field of "human-powered" search engines already seems to be too crowded with Mahalo, Wikia Search, Sproose, and ChaCha (which has now decided to focus on the mobile search frontier). All of these, however, still use bots, algorithms or a staff in one way or another in order to function as desired.
Stumpedia, on the other hand, claims to be "human-powered" and actually seems to be the only such engine to be completely at the will of its users. It's homepage [...]

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.
Just today, Allen Stern of Center Networks has posted about the [...]

Marshall Kirkpatrick's Twine review initially set off my post asking what the perception is of an application's status. It also set off a flurry of buzz about Twine, the private beta from the team at Radar Networks.
I took advantage of our outage yesterday to really spend time poking around in Twine, which defines itself as a semantic web application. I always approach anything that claims it can learn anything about me and provide a true semantic experience, but I'm so [...]

This week saw the launch of Wikia Search, and the revelation that Mahalo is still relying on Google for most of its traffic, using SEO strategy to drive it. And while everyone wants to be the search engine that actually succeeds in drawing users away from Google, no one really thinks that a contender has appeared yet.
Here's the rub: Google is processing over 20,000 terabytes PER DAY. No start-up in the world is going to have the cash to process [...]

Wikia Search , the new user-generated search engine from the Wikimedia Foundation, launched today to much fanfare. Still in alpha, Wikipedia founder and CEO Jimmy Wales admits that as an alpha release, it still lacks user data, leading to poor results, but he expects the search to improve over the coming weeks.
According to Wales, the future of Internet search depends on change according to Four Organizing Principles: transparency, community, quality, and privacy. And while he claims that Wikia [...]

The Web 2.0 blogs are abuzz with a Google Labs experiment that no actual person seems to have gotten their hands on yet: a voting mechanism for Google search results. It's been called Digg-styled while others think it's just a way to personalize results.
I don't think it's either one. I think Google realizes that if people didn't want more relevant results, Mahalo would have sunk like a stone already, and that isn't the case. While I've [...]

The latest experiment from the Squidoo team is a people search engine with a different focus than other offerings such as Spock and Wink.
SquidWho seems to be more targeted towards building fan pages about various people (celebrities, sports stars, etc.), and it allows anyone to build and claim a page about anyone else.
Given the flaws that Squidoo has run into, including countless "lenses" filled with nothing but spam and links, does SquidWho stand a chance in providing [...]