[Search-l] _Techcrunch_: Jason Calacanis Launches Mahalo Today: Human Powered Search

[jer]

> also, if anyone is looking to work (for pay) on a human-powered search
> engine send my your resume. :-)

Employee-powered search?

When I read "Mahalo's goal is to hand-write the top 10,000 search  
terms." I was a little perplexed as that seems more like a directory  
than a search engine, but "search" definitely gets a lot more buzz  
and "directory" is a very tired word :)

> sorry... but we would have to pay you.

Hmm, does this mean that all the content is produced and owned by  
Mahalo Inc.?  Or is there user-contributed content copyright those  
users or the GFDL / Creative Commons?

>> as I mentioned in my comments with the press we hope Wikia's open
>> source search works so we can leverage it for when our humans don't
>> have a result.

That'd be cool, and I hope the corollary is always true as well, that  
Mahalo is fully crawlable and indexable, so far so good since there's  
no robots.txt, *grin*.

Jer