DISQUS

The Equity Kicker: Jason Calacanis at the MMK07 conference - Mahalo Greenhouse announced

  • alan p · 2 years ago
    And how, pray tell, will Mahalo stop people gaming it and still be scalable? Ref travails of Wikipedia
  • nic · 2 years ago
    That Alan, as you imply, is the million dollar question. The answer so far is that they will use human editors, and use the Mahalo Greenhouse idea to build a huge network of people to help.

    A key point is that they are not trying to index the whole web. I suspect they will ignore any site that looks for half a second like it might be spam, and they will lose some decent sites that way. Time will tell whether they can make the balance work in a way that is compelling for the likes of you and me.

    It is a bit different to Wikipedia because you can only edit their index if you are on their payroll.
  • alan p · 2 years ago
    fwiw I blogged on Mahalo awhile back here:

    http://broadstuff.com/archives/269-Aloha-Mahalo...

    My end thoughts after the analysis were:

    But, will this business scale - rather than sale ;-) - as its not hard to imagine doing the same 80/20 job with a far more automated service and still hoovering up the Ad cents. Also, will people really be happy to continually go to a site that doesn't search everything and anything?
  • leafar · 2 years ago
    Lucky You !
    I wanted to see him for a long time. I've started following Jason when he started the discussion about menitzing Wikipedia (to make it more secure).

    Mahalo is People inside !
    The huge difference with wikipedia is that you deal with stock. No one can alterate something already done.

    And I am happy to see they add 500 items a day (that's U-lik current number ;-)).

    Have you talked to him personnaly ??
  • nic · 2 years ago
    Alan - with Sequoia investing I guess they are going for scale, not an early exit. Nothing else would move the needle for those guys.

    You make an interesting point at the end though - until I read your post I would have thought that the top 10,000 searches was more than 25% of searches. Jason will need more coverage than that if he is to convince people to make Mahalo their first port of call.