[Search-l] "directory" vs. "search engine"

[Jason Calacanis]

On 6/11/07, Nitin Borwankar <nitin at borwankar.com> wrote:
> There are different kinds of bloggers.
> Those who
> b) have "fun" blogging AND are self employed due to ad-revenue (and
> possibly premium subscription revenue) from blogging

Nitin: You nailed it. We paid 300 bloggers a month when I was running
Weblogs, Inc. (which produces Engadget, Joystiq, Autoblog, etc). So,
there is a model between work for free for fun, and get paid and hate
your job. Frankly, I find it crazy that folks would work for free for
a venture-backed company when sales people, CEOs, programmers and
others are getting paid--but that's just me. I'm a journalist/writer
by trade and I find it offensive that everyone wants to make my
profession the one that is done for free.

Anyway...

...today I'm thrilled to announce that you can create search results
at Mahalo.com and get paid for doing them! More details here:

http://greenhouse.mahalo.com/

Also, if you don't want to get paid we will donate your fees to
Wikipedia.  In fact, we're earmarked $250,000 in fees to the Wikipedia
for the next year.

Questions? Comments? Concerns?

best,

Jason
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