Thursday, May 31, 2007

Mahalo? Powered by humans?

Tons of buzz recently about Mahalo, the new search engine launched by Jason Calacanis. Mahalo has a team of human editors focused on improving search quality for the top 10,000 search terms.

I search 'loan' on Mahalo to get a sense for how they handle blatantly commercial searches. Here are the results: http://www.mahalo.com/Special:Search?search=loan. Note that the results include sections on Tony Blair and the Cleveland Cavaliers - neither of whom provide debt financing or information about debt financing, so far as I am aware.

The top 5 Google results for "loan", displayed by Mahalo below their own results, show: eloan, loans.com, wikipedia's loan entry, bankrate.com and govloans (a government loan site).

For now, I'm sticking with Google.
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