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I think that a Wikipedia page on Mahalo would be appropriate considering Mahalo.com is a notable company lead by a group of notable investors and executives including News Corporation, Sequoia Capital, CBS, Elon Musk, and myself Jason Calacanis. JasonCalacanis 21:06, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
Mollyfud 21:41, 3 June 2007 (UTC) Can't agree. Give it a week at least. And is it good that the owner of the site is asking for the page to be created?
Fixed names of C-level execs. Jehochman Talk 04:09, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
This page could use some updating, it talks in present tense about the rate of growth of Mahalo in 2007, for example. I'd edit myself but I wrote a search result for them once, and won one of their contests. While I think I'm neutral enough, others may disagree. LizBlankenship ( talk) 23:31, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
I deleted the list of features because that makes the article sound like an advertisement, which isn't what we want. Please comb through the references provided by Jason, and run some news searches. We need to gather facts from the news reports and assemble them to form an article. We don't want to start from the company website, because that will lead to a boring, biased article that nobody will want to read. We need to include all significant points of view. Mahalo is controversial, so we need to include any criticisms that have been reported by reliable sources. (This excludes somebody ranting on their personal blog.) Jehochman Talk 08:15, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
There is no such thing as a "human based search engine", this is a human edited DIRECTORY, that has stated it's goal as eventually making a profit from placing ads in its "search results". As it is not a search engine it can not provide "Search Results". This is SEO Marketing 101.
There is an error in the key people section. C.K. Sample III is only director-level, he does not seem to be a key person (& I don't think he is a founder?) The Mahalo corporate site lists three C-level execs at http://www.mahalo.com/mahalo who seem to be the right names
Was this really an error? C.K. Sample III is listed as part of the management team on the same page you reference regarding the C-level execs.
I suggest we include chacha.com and sproose.com as competitors since they are doing human search. 67.159.166.18 21:47, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Somebody who has time, please check this source and update the article. Jehochman Talk 14:11, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
We launched the Mahalo Greenhouse last week in London. This service allows users to write search results and make $10-15 for doing so. If folks don't want the fees they can donate the fees to the Wikipedia/WikiMediaFoundation. I think it merits a section on the page, but I of course leave that to the community to decide. 76.167.229.57 01:31, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
I'm not accusing Mahalo staff of doing this (as I can see from this talk page, Calacanis is being a good and fair Wikipedian) but maybe some of his fans aren't. There are several lines in this article that are simply there to pursuade the reader to use Mahalo. "Search industry analyst Danny Sullivan has called some of Mahalo's results "impressive". That is persuasive and yet is clearly not there to serve any information to the reader other than to express the POV of a individual of the search engine industry - this brings me on to point 2.
Mahalo is not a Search Engine . As defined by the Wikipedia article on search engines "Web search engines work by storing information about a large number of web pages, which they retrieve from the WWW itself. These pages are retrieved by a Web crawler (sometimes also known as a spider)". Sorry guys, it's a directory. Martin Porcheron talk to me my edits 23:01, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
There's a debate about the term Human Search Engine that has now spilled out into various specific search-engine pages. Mahalo.com calls itself a "human-powered search", which sounds like a reasonable self-explanatory description. Is there evidence that they (or WP:RS that write about them) use the specific and apparently technically-defined "Human Search Engine" terminology? DMacks ( talk) 21:32, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is encyclopedic or not, but it's certainly interesting: They are taking a page from Wikipedia and allowing the general public to edit. It won't be a free-for-all like Wikipedia: Staff members will screen edits before they appear. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 14:50, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
Should we add Mahalo's video game YouTube channel here?
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This article reads like a fucking billboard and is clearly designed to act as an advertisement for the website. There are five different subheadings defining all the features of the website. These need consolidated into one paragraph. Boilingorangejuice ( talk) 10:47, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
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I think that a Wikipedia page on Mahalo would be appropriate considering Mahalo.com is a notable company lead by a group of notable investors and executives including News Corporation, Sequoia Capital, CBS, Elon Musk, and myself Jason Calacanis. JasonCalacanis 21:06, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
Mollyfud 21:41, 3 June 2007 (UTC) Can't agree. Give it a week at least. And is it good that the owner of the site is asking for the page to be created?
Fixed names of C-level execs. Jehochman Talk 04:09, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
This page could use some updating, it talks in present tense about the rate of growth of Mahalo in 2007, for example. I'd edit myself but I wrote a search result for them once, and won one of their contests. While I think I'm neutral enough, others may disagree. LizBlankenship ( talk) 23:31, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
I deleted the list of features because that makes the article sound like an advertisement, which isn't what we want. Please comb through the references provided by Jason, and run some news searches. We need to gather facts from the news reports and assemble them to form an article. We don't want to start from the company website, because that will lead to a boring, biased article that nobody will want to read. We need to include all significant points of view. Mahalo is controversial, so we need to include any criticisms that have been reported by reliable sources. (This excludes somebody ranting on their personal blog.) Jehochman Talk 08:15, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
There is no such thing as a "human based search engine", this is a human edited DIRECTORY, that has stated it's goal as eventually making a profit from placing ads in its "search results". As it is not a search engine it can not provide "Search Results". This is SEO Marketing 101.
There is an error in the key people section. C.K. Sample III is only director-level, he does not seem to be a key person (& I don't think he is a founder?) The Mahalo corporate site lists three C-level execs at http://www.mahalo.com/mahalo who seem to be the right names
Was this really an error? C.K. Sample III is listed as part of the management team on the same page you reference regarding the C-level execs.
I suggest we include chacha.com and sproose.com as competitors since they are doing human search. 67.159.166.18 21:47, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Somebody who has time, please check this source and update the article. Jehochman Talk 14:11, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
We launched the Mahalo Greenhouse last week in London. This service allows users to write search results and make $10-15 for doing so. If folks don't want the fees they can donate the fees to the Wikipedia/WikiMediaFoundation. I think it merits a section on the page, but I of course leave that to the community to decide. 76.167.229.57 01:31, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
I'm not accusing Mahalo staff of doing this (as I can see from this talk page, Calacanis is being a good and fair Wikipedian) but maybe some of his fans aren't. There are several lines in this article that are simply there to pursuade the reader to use Mahalo. "Search industry analyst Danny Sullivan has called some of Mahalo's results "impressive". That is persuasive and yet is clearly not there to serve any information to the reader other than to express the POV of a individual of the search engine industry - this brings me on to point 2.
Mahalo is not a Search Engine . As defined by the Wikipedia article on search engines "Web search engines work by storing information about a large number of web pages, which they retrieve from the WWW itself. These pages are retrieved by a Web crawler (sometimes also known as a spider)". Sorry guys, it's a directory. Martin Porcheron talk to me my edits 23:01, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
There's a debate about the term Human Search Engine that has now spilled out into various specific search-engine pages. Mahalo.com calls itself a "human-powered search", which sounds like a reasonable self-explanatory description. Is there evidence that they (or WP:RS that write about them) use the specific and apparently technically-defined "Human Search Engine" terminology? DMacks ( talk) 21:32, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is encyclopedic or not, but it's certainly interesting: They are taking a page from Wikipedia and allowing the general public to edit. It won't be a free-for-all like Wikipedia: Staff members will screen edits before they appear. davidwr/( talk)/( contribs)/( e-mail) 14:50, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
Should we add Mahalo's video game YouTube channel here?
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This article reads like a fucking billboard and is clearly designed to act as an advertisement for the website. There are five different subheadings defining all the features of the website. These need consolidated into one paragraph. Boilingorangejuice ( talk) 10:47, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
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