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

[Jason McCabe Calacanis]

People own their submission, but we own content produced by the fulltime staff which get benefits, stock options, and a salary.

We are looking for fulltime folks right now--wikipedian types--who want to help build out the top 10-25k terms.  If your one of these folks ping me.

Yes, it is a directory of sorts... But in a search format powered by wiki software. So, a hybrid. When we don't have a result we show google. If wikia open source search is good we will certainly use it for long tail searches--looking forward to that time!!

Also, we have a dev team so we would be open to helping build it out.

Mahalo for the feedback,

J
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-----Original Message-----
From: jer <jeremie at jabber.org>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 01:32:32 
To:Jason Calacanis <jason at calacanis.com>
Cc:search-l at wikia.com
Subject: Re: [Search-l] _Techcrunch_: Jason Calacanis Launches Mahalo Today: Human Powered Search

> 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