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

[Pushparajan V]

Being a company and organizing the project within the open source developers
is a good way to do.. But dont see profit until it gains the popularity..
Search terms cannot be compiled using a hand full of salaried employees..
Its better to have a small set of employees who can encourage and coordinate
the open source search engine effort instead of people who can frame top 25k
terms.. Because search terms vary each and every second.. one term will be
popular for 1 month and suddenly it will go down in the next second.. So,
its better if you move open to create a open source search movement..

Please.. Please.. don't go private and hide the creativity that can form up
in the open source world..


On 5/31/07, Jason McCabe Calacanis <jason at calacanis.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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Thanks,

Pushparajan V
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