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Mahalo
By Rob | June 4, 2007
Life without the Internet & Search Engines is unthinkable in today’s day and age. Where else can information hungry web surfers find quick access to info on everything imaginable?
Mahalo is one of the latest entrants in the arena of Search Engines and is unique enough that, despite being California based, I think it is worth covering here. What sets apart Mahalo from the likes of Google and MSN etc is the not just the fact that Mahalo is the a human edited & human powered search engine, but that Jason Calacanis is one of the founders.
This Santa Monica based search engine functions with a team of people – guides who search, filter and hand pick search results. Since the job here is being done by humans as compared to automated web spiders, one would think that the results may be more customized and tailor made to the needs of the web surfer. However, it also means that the process of compiling such valuable search result pages for users is slower. Currently, Mahalo has compiled only about 4,000 search engine result pages making the possibility of not finding the information you are searching for quite high at the current stage of its progress.
In the event that you do not find what you were looking for, the search engine asks you to request for the same by entering your email id and selecting the “Notify Me” option. However, we do not think that hurried web surfers really have the time, patience or the interest in waiting for information when they can find a plethora of search results on Google.
I think Google’s results suck, but I’m not sure if Mahalo is the answer.
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