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- laplacian, on 10/11/2007, -2/+73sorry, http://www.chacha.com/ has been around for a while.
- msaleem, on 11/08/2007, -7/+61Very interesting to see that Kevin Rose would submit Mahalo (of Calacanis, ex-Netscape boss). We all know that Kevin-submitted means 100% FP. Is there something more going on here behind the scenes?
- dfltr, on 10/11/2007, -8/+39no adult content? honestly, can we please get over that already? it's online, it's legitimate, and people want to find it.
- TDDM, on 10/11/2007, -0/+27What about ChaCha? You can search with a human guide, and thats been around for a while. Chacha.com
- Zarxrax, on 10/11/2007, -3/+24Buried as inaccurate. This is a total rip-off of ChaCha, which has been around for like a year already.
- jdawg, on 10/11/2007, -6/+25thanks for the submission kevin!
this is in alpha and we're just looking to get feedback. when we hit 10,000 and 25,000 search pages it will be much better...please give us some time and tell us how to make it better.
best j - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17I tried something simple "jobs gates meeting" You know Bill Gates and Steve Jobs onstage together for an historic meeting tonight.
I got:
Oops! We haven't hand-written a result page for "jobs gates meeting" yet. Why?
Notify me when Mahalo creates a result page for "jobs gates meeting"
Now I know it's an Alpha, but wow they better have a ton of people working 24/7 in Bangalore, India to make this concept work.
However it might be good for botique searches, stuff you just couldn't drill down a good result set from in Google.
But it's still a highly labor/time intensive product in my opinion. - BigManOnCampus, on 10/11/2007, -6/+22Mahalo, Hawaiian for thank-you. So no, I did not read it as manhalo.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. - cks3, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14Junkyarddawg: spammers cannot touch us, b/c we pay people to build and curate our search results. There's no gaming, because we have people building our search results. That's why we're here... to help fight the spam and get you the best quality search results possible. Let us know what you think what you think we're missing and what you want to see change. We're listening.
- merreborn, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15I think they might have a hard time finding employees, if they were constantly had to search the net for images and video of people's weird fetishes.
I'd imagine that could be quite soul crushing work. - ricodued, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12@jdawg (#6945755)
Automate it :) - mwsherman, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11Frankly, I fail to see how this is going to be any better or more useful than, say, about.com . Which isn't especially useful at that.
- coolian, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11Sigh. Yet another search engine that nobody's going to use.
- retral, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10It'd be pretty interesting for the first couple days.
- merreborn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10Isn't that what yahoo did back in 1994? Hand crafted a directory of the internet?
They ended up losing the search engine war with that strategy. How is this better? What are you guys doing that the old yahoo directory didn't? - Roger, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9I think I'll stick with Google.
- kitwaites, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9@wwwdot1jesdotus:
Maybe he couldn't find it because digg's own search is so incredibly bad. - MasterChi, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11Yup, marked as inaccurate since its not the first search powered by humans, chacha.com is and was dugg to hell a long time ago. Kevin read your own website once in awhile.
- ao5357, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Wasn't this how Yahoo! used to be? Human beings would index the site into categories. http://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://www2.yahoo.com/
Or, I'm just not getting it? - MissMoist, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7to quote butthead, "this sucks more than anything has ever sucked before."
- klept, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9First p2p search engine guide? What about cha cha? Or is there some difference in Mahalo?
And before all you stupid haules reading this misread what I wrote, I mean doesnt cha cha do the same thing as Mahalo is suppose to do? And of course all you wizzs on Digg know that cha cha has been out there for awhile. - Mosatii, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7That market niche is already inhabited by /r.
- mono, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I guess all the searches for stuff like Linsay Lohan, American Idol, and Lost will be meticulously crafted. Sigh. What a waste of time. Google's results ARE crafted by humans. A site gets higher in it's rankings if more PEOPLE link to it from their own sites.
- lordsandwich, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6@dfltr
People who can't find porn on the internet need way more help than this site can offer. - istatic, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6buried as inaccurate, and lame. GG Kevin
- roastedbagel, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5They have Gilmore Girls but not Scrubs in the "Everything in Television" category...Grrr.....
Definitely diggin the layout though (pun intended) - lokoluis15, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4The description is inaccurate. We've all heard of chacha, don't give us this "world's first human powered search engine" bull.
- sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7So this is for what, people incapable of visiting about.com or google?
- wwwdot1jesdotus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3"sorry, http://www.chacha.com/ has been around for a while."
Thought the same thing. Why would kevin rose submit an inaccurate description? - hiPpymIck, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4they seem to be hoping for small is beautiful
FTA
"Mahalo's goal is to hand-write the top 10,000 search terms." - SemDD, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3The word "mahalo" means Pendulum in Bulgarian, too ;-)
- omgomgomg, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4buried as spam - this is no different than a top digger accepting money for a dig
- surfing, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Psst: it's a joke
- p0tent1al, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Ok.
I read all the comments from this section first. First of all, yeah Kevin Rose's description is incorrect. Chacha has been around longer and IS human powered. But this really looks like this could be nice. For instance, if you type in Digg, it brings up all sorts of information, hacks, etc. I can really see this being very nice, yeah it might be a little labor intensive though.
I never would see this replacing Digg, but if I really wanted to find the relevant topics of what I'm searching, yeah I would use this. You guys should give it a quick try, using the articles they have already wrote. - tastethevenom, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3"Mahalo is the world's first human-powered search engine."
No, it's not.
http://wink.com/
http://www.chacha.com/
http://www.jookster.com/
I don't recall more at the moment, but there was another in which someone performs a search for you in real time. Calacanis fails, lies again. - matc, on 05/07/2008, -0/+3Incredibly lame - buried. Not only is this a cha-cha rip off, but its blatant lie about being the first human powered search engine combined with its crappy name and ugly web 1.0 interface makes it a terrible combination.
- LexisNexis, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Interesting to see so many tech companies named after Hawaiian words:
Akamai
Wiki
Mahalo
I can't think of any more. - Icebird, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Mahalo? That's what Adam Carola says after all his shows! And what he used to say on Loveline!
- alberto24, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3A review here:
http://www.centernetworks.com/mahalo-launches-my-critical-review
(appears to be the only critical review of the product) - chad78, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5Chacha was what I was thinking too.
- radial, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3@pinkzdiva
we can tell you're a hired gun, you signed up just today and your only digg is for this site?
spammer - eezzzz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3So, when are they taking down the squatter site and putting up the real one..?
- tetfsu, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I'm not so sure I'm putting my faith into any search engine that categorizes Twitter as technology worth being mentioned in the top 3...
It's just a wiki reskinned. - mal1964, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3@Klept "ha'ole"
- PacoDG, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2".. this is Adam Carolla on behalf of Dr Drew saying .. Mahalo!" is all I can think of. Been pressed into my brain after many a year.
- praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -1/+3This doesn't actually search with a human guide, as far as I can tell. A human person just compiles links for specific search terms.
- treed, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Sounds like DMOZ 2.0.
- eezzzz, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4@We're listening.
Can someone cue the crickets? - stephdau, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2What do the new Palm Foleo, the U.S. House of Representatives and the Smoking Gun have in common?
Apparently, they're all lonely.
http://www.mahalo.com/Special:Lonelypages
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