[Search-l] Mahalo Greenhouse

[Jason Calacanis]

On 6/13/07, Aerik Sylvan <aerik at thesylvans.com> wrote:
> Hmm... that's an interesting supposition.  When I started with wiki
> directory 2 years ago, the naysayers said the same kinds of things:  a
> directory in a wiki will get spammed to death.  Now, 2 years later with
> 25,000 websites and about 3,000 registered users (which is totally optional,
> by the way, just like Wikipedia) it's looking pretty okay.  Really, our
> biggest problem isn't spam; it's non-neutral language and an overabundance
> of commercial websites.

It looks interesting... I'm checking it out now. Hey, what the heck do
I know about building a human-powered search engine... (or directory)
I think we're all figuring that out right!?!?! :-)

I guess you could do it totally open, but I think the results would be
shaky for a while... I think we want to keep them higher-quality.
Maybe that's a mistake... you think we should make it a totally open
and let go wild!?

> But I've gotta say, I'm very tempted to write a "search" layer on top of the
> directory, and I'll have something like what you're describing:  websites
> associated with search results (right now they're categorized) and a place
> to describe and discuss each website.

Why not... I would do it and see what the users think.

best j
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