Search Engines: Mahalo
Mahalo’s Calacanis: Time To End The Content Farm Arms Race
No stranger to controversy, Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis threw down a gauntlet at his “content farm” competitors, arguing...
He Calls Google A Vampire, But Mark Cuban’s Mahalo Is Doing The Sucking
Yesterday, Mark Cuban warned media owners in a keynote speech that Google is a vampire trying to suck them dry, giving them nothing back and...
Mahalo Answers Launches, Offers Cash For Q&A
Mahalo Answers is the newest entry into the crowded Q&A reference site space, but it offers a twist that its biggest competitors...
Search 4.0: Social Search Engines & Putting Humans Back In Search
Previously I’ve covered what I dubbed Search 3.0, how search engines have evolved toward blending vertical or specialized results into...
SMX Social: Just What Did Calacanis Say About SEO & More Recaps
At our SMX Social Media Marketing conference this week, we had a great panel on the future of human powered search. Jason Calacanis of Mahalo,...
SMX Social: Mahalo To Do Microformats, Search Wikia Adds Alpha 0.2 Features & More
News from the first day of our SMX Social Media Marketing conference. Mahalo is now doing microformats as a way to enhance its search results...
Mahalo Adds More Social Features
Mahalo has just launched several new features that entwine the human-powered search engine even further into social networking and online...
The Google Challengers: 2008 Edition
Rich Skrenta — who, aside from creating the first computer virus, is more notable to search as a cofounder of the Open Directory Project...
Who’s Ranking For Knol? Hello, Wikipedia!
Ah, sweet irony. Yesterday I spent some time raising concerns about knowledge aggregation sites like Wikipedia and the forthcoming Google Knol...
Mahalo Adds The Social Graph To Search
Everyone’s been talking about how the social graph is the next evolution of search. Search 4.0. The next step forward after Search...
The Promise & Reality Of Mixing The Social Graph With Search Engines
I’m having a bad day. Aside from my desktop crashing, we get another spate of “let’s blame SEO” to start my morning off....
Mahalo Follow: Toolbar Gives You Human-Powered Alternatives To Searching, Surfing
Mahalo Follow is a new toolbar that allows you to view Mahalo’s human-powered search results next to the results from the major search...
Search Spam Fight – Mahalo: 1; Squidoo: 0
Last week, Jason Calacanis of Mahalo renewed his campaign from earlier this year against Squidoo as a source of search spam. This time, he...
Google’s Human Touch
The Human Touch That May Loosen Google’s Grip from the New York Times questions whether Google’s use of algorithms and computers to...
Mahalo Greenhouse: Get Paid For Writing Search Results
Jason Calacanis has announced Mahalo Greenhouse, a way for users to get paid for writing their own search results for the Mahalo people-powered...
Mahalo Launches With Human-Crafted Search Results
Mahalo, the expected people-powered search engine backed by Jason Calacanis, has now gone live in an early "Alpha" test release. In...