Calacanis’ New Gig: Mahalo
So Jason Calacanis is back in the start-up game with a human-powered search engine called Mahalo. First impressions: it reminds me of the early days of Yahoo when its search engine index was put together manually. The difference is Mahalo wants to build its index through crowd-sourcing. No one could ever accuse Calacanis being shy given this comment:
“Please take a look at our results and compare the ones we have side by side with machine powered search by folks like Google, Ask, Yahoo, Technorati, AOL, and MSN. I think you’ll find that humans can really help make search results better.”
Mahalo has raised two rounds of financing from a group that includes: Sequoia Capital, Elon Musk, News Corp., CBS, Hubert Burda Media, Allen & Co., David Bradley, Gigi Brisson, Sandy Climan, Mark Cuban, Matt Coffin, Ted Leonsis, Jonathan Miller, Mark Pincus, Ryan Scott, and Fred Wilson.
May 31st, 2007 at 4:27 pm
I like cha cha, can be good friend for a loner.. I hope Mahalo can be such man’s friend too
June 6th, 2007 at 10:13 am
This is similar to mahalo - http://en.dabu.pl
However, it is more extended in polish version - http://dabu.pl