New Search Engine
If you are like me the first place you search for something is using Google, but there is a new spin on search that is worth watching. It is called Mahalo and is the world’s first human-powered search engine powered by an enthusiastic and energetic group of Guides. These Guides spend their days searching, filtering out spam, and hand-crafting the best search results possible. If they haven’t yet built a search result, you can request that search result. You can also suggest links for any of our search results.
Mahalo now has pre-prepared pages for 5,000 terms related to entertainment, travel, health, technology and other subject areas. The company plans to expand its coverage to 10,000 terms by year-end, and eventually to provide results for one-third of the most common search terms.
The company is financed by Sequoia Capital, which knows something about the search business: It was an early backer of both Yahoo and Google. Sequoia, like other Silicon Valley venture capital firms, offers experienced entrepreneurs an office and salary to figure out an idea for a new start-up. It was while he was an entrepreneur in residence that Jason Calacanis had the inspiration for Mahalo. Mr. Calacanis, 36, published The Silicon Alley Reporter in the mid-1990s and went on to be a co-founder of Weblogs, a federation of blogging sites that was sold to AOL in 2005 for about $25 million. He took up residence at Sequoia in December 2006, founded Mahalo and gathered two rounds of financing, including backing from the News Corporation.
If you search for a term they have indexed this is what you will see. I searched for the new Apple “iPhone”:
The Mahalo Top 7
- Apple: iPhone
- Engadget: The Apple iPhone
- Wikipedia: iPhone
- CNET: iPhone Review
- Engadget: Apple announces third-party software details for iPhone
- Macworld: Apple unveils iPhone
- CBS News: A Closer Look at the iPhone
iPhone Recent News
- Engadget: Apple announces third-party software details for iPhone
- Google News: iPhone Last 3 headlines
- CNN.com: Apple iPhone launch date set
- Orlando Sentinel: Industry rivals scramble to answer iPhone’s buzz
- Time: Apple’s New Calling: The iPhone
- BusinessWeek: The Real Genius of Apple’s iPhone
- Topix.net: iPhone News Search
- Wall Street Journal: BlackJack Beats Out Palm 750, iPhone May Well Top Both
- Engadget: iPhone to ship on June 29th at 6pm
- The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): Apple announces 3rd parties can write Web 2.0 apps for iPhone
iPhone Information and Reviews
- MacWorld: iPhone
- Fast Company Magazine: Deconstructing the iPhone slideshow
- The New York Times: “Some Hands-On Time With the iPhone”
- AskTog: The iPhone User Experience
- ZDNet: Apple iPhone Review
iPhone Video
- Apple: iPhone TV Ads
- Apple: iPhone: A Guided Tour
…and much, much more. If you search for something they have not indexed such as “Mount Everest” you will see the following:
Oops! We haven’t hand-written a result page for “mount everest” yet. Why?
Notify me when Mahalo creates a result page for “mount everest”
Related Result Pages from Mahalo
More results from our friends at Google:
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Mount Everest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mount Everest or Qomolangma or Sagarmatha (सगरमाथा) or Chomolungma (ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ) pronounced as (Jongmalunga) is the highest mountain on …
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