Calacanis Says Mahalo
Jason Calacanis is out there trying something new, and so people are going in all directions talking about it. Mahalo is a human-powered search engine. What’s this? It means that people put in the links, and people try to build relevance to the topics. It’s not that far off from what Jimmy Wales is (was?) planning to do. Only Jason’s already launched it. “First!”
Will It Work?
I like the premise. It’s further down the path from the whole Rollyo “roll your own search engine” thingy. Remember that? I’m not sure. It requires humans. Humans are tricky bastards. They have to pay attention. They have to do things.
My Vote
I work with entrepreneurs. I’m a hybrid spirit myself (not fully there, but sensitive and appreciative of). But I think I’ll cast my vote with Jason on the notion that human-flavored curation of search is an important trend in coming years. I want to see this work out. And I signed up. Mahalo!
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Comments
It’s a great concept and even if it only serves to improve the Google Algorithm or search engine AI it will be a success in my book.
It’s on my Firefox bookmark toolbar. I’ll be helping everyone put it through its paces. If I lived on the west coast I might even stop buy for a job interview. Good Luck Jason.
Thanks for the positive feedback…
Not everyone will grok or like the idea, but I think over time folks will understand we are trying to replace wikipedia or google.
The goal here is to make the top search terms better. Compare paris hotels on mahalo to ask, yahoo, google, and wikipedia–i think we do the best job already. Now, that result is only 60% complete, and with public review we can make it even better!