Comments on: What Is Going On At Mahalo? http://www.profy.com/2008/04/01/what-is-going-on-at-mahalo/ Web 2.0 News & Commentary Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:08:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Site605 - Combining Strengths of Google and Mahalo - Profy.Com http://www.profy.com/2008/04/01/what-is-going-on-at-mahalo/#comment-548921 Fri, 02 May 2008 22:47:28 +0000 http://www.profy.com/2008/04/01/what-is-going-on-at-mahalo/#comment-548921 [...] Posted by Michael Garrett on May 2nd, 2008 By now we all know how lucrative the market for human-powered search engines has become. There's About.com (which has started to show its age), the indecisive Mahalo research engine, the mobile-focused ChaCha, and even newcomer Stumpedia. [...] […] Posted by Michael Garrett on May 2nd, 2008 By now we all know how lucrative the market for human-powered search engines has become. There's About.com (which has started to show its age), the indecisive Mahalo research engine, the mobile-focused ChaCha, and even newcomer Stumpedia. […]

]]> by: Richard M http://www.profy.com/2008/04/01/what-is-going-on-at-mahalo/#comment-442591 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:57:31 +0000 http://www.profy.com/2008/04/01/what-is-going-on-at-mahalo/#comment-442591 Thats really the only reason. Allen Stern over at centernetworks quoted JC as saying "If Google wants to index us well that's fine with us, but our model is not based on being well indexed in Google". Obviously if Google and Yahoo ripped them out of their index, as they should, then Mahalo's traffic would drop like a stone. And they are worried about that. My take on it is they made a big SEO play, built a decent page rank, built a bunch of pages that are highly indexed on Google and brought in traffic. I seriously doubt they could maintain a high level of traffic with out being indexed on Google or any other "search engine". Thats really the only reason. Allen Stern over at centernetworks quoted JC as saying “If Google wants to index us well that’s fine with us, but our model is not based on being well indexed in Google”. Obviously if Google and Yahoo ripped them out of their index, as they should, then Mahalo’s traffic would drop like a stone. And they are worried about that.

My take on it is they made a big SEO play, built a decent page rank, built a bunch of pages that are highly indexed on Google and brought in traffic. I seriously doubt they could maintain a high level of traffic with out being indexed on Google or any other “search engine”.

]]> by: Michael Garrett http://www.profy.com/2008/04/01/what-is-going-on-at-mahalo/#comment-430111 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:30:14 +0000 http://www.profy.com/2008/04/01/what-is-going-on-at-mahalo/#comment-430111 After all of that talk about Mahalo not being a SEO play, too.  Why else would Calacanis be requiring longer notes and more content if not to continue the surge of traffic provided by Google? After all of that talk about Mahalo not being a SEO play, too.  Why else would Calacanis be requiring longer notes and more content if not to continue the surge of traffic provided by Google?

]]> by: WinExtra » From the Pipeline - 4.1.08 http://www.profy.com/2008/04/01/what-is-going-on-at-mahalo/#comment-427051 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:37:31 +0000 http://www.profy.com/2008/04/01/what-is-going-on-at-mahalo/#comment-427051 [...] What Is Going On At Mahalo? :: profy - Michael Garret has some interesting questions about Mr. Calacanis’ Mahalo project. [...] […] What Is Going On At Mahalo? :: profy - Michael Garret has some interesting questions about Mr. Calacanis’ Mahalo project. […]

]]> by: RichardM http://www.profy.com/2008/04/01/what-is-going-on-at-mahalo/#comment-426261 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:54:02 +0000 http://www.profy.com/2008/04/01/what-is-going-on-at-mahalo/#comment-426261 Interesting read, I was just over at CN reading their article too. Research engine, thats what JC is calling it these days. Well looking over the newest pages on the daily serp list it doesn't look like they've changed much of anything. I see longer guide notes, and a little more detail, guess thats to avoid the new Google Spam filters. Interesting read, I was just over at CN reading their article too. Research engine, thats what JC is calling it these days. Well looking over the newest pages on the daily serp list it doesn’t look like they’ve changed much of anything. I see longer guide notes, and a little more detail, guess thats to avoid the new Google Spam filters.

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