Category Archives: Mahalo

Finding Mahalo In Them Thar SERPs

So, I’m not disparaging any company that gets 3M or so uniques per month, but its funny.  I remember that when Mahalo was launched some year(s) ago, in its initial incarnation / hype, I remember someone saying something about building its index to the 25k most common terms, and then trying to own those terms [...]

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I Grudgingly Give Props To Jason Calacanis: Mahalo Has Been Doing Great

There were a lot of people, who, about a year ago made a lot of noises about how Jason Calacanis’s next project, wasn’t going to work (me included). Human edited directories will never ride in this day of automated algorithmic Google-ish-ness, and paying people to do be mechanical turk behind the scenes, grinding out [...]

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Branding Matters A Lot For Search Engines … Unless You’re Happy With 1%

I love studies and I love experiments.  I don’t love reading through piles of boring data — but I like the idea of having an idea, testing it out, and then having something to show for it.  Sure, it might not be all that rigorous, but at least its there, and you’re saying something with [...]

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Does Spock.com Need a Guy Kawasaki or a Jason Calacanis?

How important is generating buzz to drive signups for better network effects?

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Yahoo! — “Search Is History”. Translation? “We Should Have Bought Facebook When We Had The Chance”

Yahoo says personalization. I say they mean social networks. I guess they should have made Mark Zuckerberg a better offer.

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Speedlinks: Google, RealNetworks, YouTube, Jobs, Gates, and a Would-Be Google Killer

Lots of things happened. Here’s a quick recap.

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