[Search-l] 10 People Powered Search Engines

[Jimmy Wales]

Seth Ford wrote:
> Saw these articles 
> http://mashable.com/2007/06/01/10-people-powered-search-engines/  and 
> http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/04/BUGVCKTPOP1.DTL 
> I completely agree with Rob Enderle... "You can't build a better Google. 
> You have to approach this market differently". Personally I love the way 
> http://mahalo.com/ is tackling the problem... they just need a bit more 
> work. But the mashup for people powered wiki content and Google search 
> for the tail that doesn't exist is the right one.

I agree with the general concept of "let humans do what humans do well, 
let computers do what computers do well" and I also think this roughly 
translates to "the head and the long tail"...

But what Mahalo is doing is totally uninteresting to me because it is 
proprietary.  It doesn't change the structure of the industry.