Comments on: Aloha to Mahalo, Calacanis’ new reference tool http://blog.agrawals.org/2007/05/31/aloha-to-mahalo-calacanis-new-reference-tool/ Rocky Agrawal's blog on search, wireless, maps and Web 2.0 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:08:58 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Clint Pidlubny http://blog.agrawals.org/2007/05/31/aloha-to-mahalo-calacanis-new-reference-tool/#comment-12346 Clint Pidlubny Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:52:07 +0000 http://redesign.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/aloha-to-mahalo-calacanis-new-reference-tool/#comment-12346 Interesting, but it's been done and abandoned by Yahoo!. Their search directory all had category editors approving content. As internet usage grew, they couldn't keep up with the work and let the robots take over from there. The Yahoo! approach was a little different, but similar in concept: humans can't be as easily gamed. Mahalo might be a good search engine for my grandma, which isn't a bad niche, but I don't think there's mass appeal here. Interesting, but it’s been done and abandoned by Yahoo!. Their search directory all had category editors approving content. As internet usage grew, they couldn’t keep up with the work and let the robots take over from there. The Yahoo! approach was a little different, but similar in concept: humans can’t be as easily gamed.

Mahalo might be a good search engine for my grandma, which isn’t a bad niche, but I don’t think there’s mass appeal here.

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