Mahalo Search
January 14th, 2008 by admin
There is a new search engine on the web, Mahalo. I think Mahalo has great results. Especially for non-techies. I asked one of my web pals yesterday whether he’d rather look at the results for Mercedes Benz S-Class at Mahalo or at Google. He instantly wanted Mahalo. Me too.Mahalo search results are hand generated. I think that is how Yahoo got its start before they went commercial to keep pace with Google?! There’s no question a human touch will help in the area of search results.Google provides alright results for my example above, it’s just not as pretty and easy to understand as Mahalo. But Mahalo doesn’t provide any useful results for most other sites, while Google does. Sure, Mahalo is trying to use Google here, but their “More results from our friends at Google” thing just doesn’t cut it from the user experience (performance, grouped results, etc).
I think Mahalo can do well. Search is such a large market that even the smallest success is pretty good money. But it won’t be a Google killer, that’s for sure. I don’t know what the answer to this is yet, but it seems likely that an innovative solution in their upcoming platform could help them bridge the search gap and hit their sweet spot.
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Mahalo is a good search engine I’ve been using it since seeing this post
Good to hear. I have to admit, I haven’t used it since this post. I’ll have to go back and give ‘er another go!