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

[Seth Finkelstein]

>>"Jason Calacanis"
>> sorry... but we would have to pay you.

	As always, the question is "How much?" :-)

> Jer
> 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 :)

	It seems to be trying to cream-skim the top search terms more
than anything else. The idea appears to be to have human-generated
content to get Google rank, then later monetize those page-views. The
box for "Link for This Search Result" is a dead give-away (how soon
before it says "Link here! Link to me!! Link, link, link!!!"? :-))

	There's a lot of chasing after that Short Head, since Google
is so spammed for the high-profit terms.

	Though I'm surprised they didn't have a page for rhymes-with-Niagra.

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