Comments on: Mahalo Has Competition (YouBundle Secret Screen Shots)

By: Kleszczów

Kleszczów — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:00:55 +0000

Just because a link comes from an authority site such as Wikipedia

By: wvyu recb

wvyu recb — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:49:26 +0000

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By: xavierv

xavierv — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:54:19 +0000

Video interview with Youbundle's co-founder and invites to the private beta on HyveUp. Click here.

By: Michiel van der Blonk

Michiel van der Blonk — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:12:51 +0000

OK, so anything with a porn link will be deleted outright. So if I write a bot that adds a porn link to every page, I can delete the whole site outright. Fun stuff.

By: bloggo

bloggo — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:00:29 +0000

scoble has a good mahalo piece on fastcompany:

http://www.fast...d-search-engine

By: George

George — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:40:57 +0000

YouBundle certainly looks like a good alternative to Mahalo. The aspect of being less controlled and directed in greater sense by the community has it's setbacks. We'll have to wait to see how it plays out. Here is a Q&A session with Jason Calacanis, founder and CEO of Mahalo. He talks about Mahalo and human-powered search - very good stuff!

By: Dirk

Dirk — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:01:01 +0000

The idea to stimulate experts to create ’starting pages’ for others, on any possible topic, as opposed to using standard search engines, is not that bad, providing: A) there is some ‘value’ for the experts to put effort in such a page B) there is some ‘monitoring’ on the pages created, in order to prevent lots of crap entries.

http://www.gemzies.com provides a virtual stage for those who are ‘proved’ to be called an expert. In contrast to YouBundle, Gemzies is already ‘live’ to welcome these fellow experts to our communities. We might need to talk to TechCrunch about this

By: FFS

FFS — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:51:07 +0000

An easy answer to all those shooting the site down BEFORE IT’S EVEN BEEN LAUNCHED – don’t visit it. Simple. If you don’t like what you’re watching on TV, switch it off – don’t sit watching it for an hour, complaining about how crap it is…

Morons.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:21:21 +0000

Rollyo.com has been around for about a couple years now, I think. Same general concept and I don’t hear much about them anymore. Is this just a dead idea?

I think the problem here is… most people don’t have a problem with Google search yet. I’m not saying this isn’t an interesting problem they’re solving, I just don’t see the large adoption happening.

By: shokeya

shokeya — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:01:35 +0000

Does anyone here know a person

By: shattyman

shattyman — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:53:55 +0000

@36 @37

actually you two are both right- take some good shit, make some fertizlier and then feed it to the tree and it will grow some content. now where did I put my shit…..

By: sigfried

sigfried — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:13:17 +0000

The more users, the more content, this could be a player…but users/content don’t grow on trees…

By: dave

dave — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:47:46 +0000

will it also be a piece of shit like mahalo? or will it be a bundle of shit?

By: Brad Jasper

Brad Jasper — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:32:59 +0000

Erik, You consistently write the best pieces on TC.

Nice article.

By: Nat

Nat — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:28:18 +0000

@15, me too , I don’t even bother looking on Mahalo, let alone use it for anything.

Nat
http://www.workersinc.com

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:20:08 +0000

I agree…if you look at the “SEO juice” that Mahalo gets, the vast majority of the long-tail pages have the same 10 – 15 bloggers that “independently” link to the same pages…hmmm. They do have some pages with really robust content which gets picked up on blogs, but that’s the exception…look at their clickstream data and you’ll see.

By: Suni

Suni — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:36:07 +0000

Mahalo is one big link farm that GOOG will pop one day and rightly so.

All their uniques just come from Jason’s 25+ twitters a day x his 27 thousand followers. He is totally smart but Mahalo is a sht thing and being Mr. Internet is going to bite him in the ass big time, think Netspace.

By: kevan

kevan — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:17:45 +0000

I predict half the commenters on this post will be in the deadpool sooner than Mahalo. Ignorance must be bliss.

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Mahaloのライバル？（YouBundleの極秘スクリーンショットあり）

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Mahaloのライバル？（YouBundleの極秘スクリーンショットあり） — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:14:24 +0000

[...] 人力検索のMahaloに、YouBundleというライバルが現れそうだ。YouBundleはここまで秘密裏にやってきたスタートアップだ。YouBundleのサイトにアクセスすると、現在はランディングページが表示されるだけだ。しかしいくつかプライベートベータのスクリーンショット（上の画像はクリックで大きくなる。また下にトピックスページのスクリーンショットも掲載した）と、ベータテスターに送付されたガイドライン（英語の原文をご覧ください）を入手した。 [...]

By: Stash Jones

Stash Jones — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:04:29 +0000

A useful tool, perhaps for info, for sure to browse. If they can manage to keep true to concept of the user community creating the best of the best links – I think they have something. A challenge will be to attract a higher level of users/bundlers to populate the site with well thought out links. Always wanted a trusted reference, perhaps this time…….

By: Quinton

Quinton — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:04:10 +0000

Mahalo is candidate for web2’s worst sites that got funding. Other than Web2 people no one has ever heard of mahalo. What a waste of energy and money.

Dude ! Do you Mahalo? Seriously

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By: Luca Merlini

Luca Merlini — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:59:06 +0000

Well, we see that most out there, me included to some degree, love to say that Mahalo and other social search initiatives suck.

But let’s be constructive for a moment: How could someone use knowledge/opinion of people to improve search results???

Google might be king, but their search results suck. I’m fascinated by the possibility of social search, but I believe the right formula isn’t out there yet. Love to see you ideas.

By: EngineLocator.com

EngineLocator.com — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:42:38 +0000

leave mahalo alone. leave wikia alone. they are trying. running on old reputations, a little blind hope and finanaced by someone else’s money. what is wrong with that. yes gentlemen we are in a bubble. lotta hype…..nothing ripe! there is no future google killer. just alot of wanna bes that have as much chance of competing with google as they do competing to become a major oil corporation. your gonna have to have a major game changer to be the google slayer of tomorrow. my advice to these companies is get a better domain name or merge with a strategic multichannel domain portfolio. you cant walk in the major league ball park without a premium vertical keyphrase domain, commonsense, easy to understand. not not a domain we need a hawaian dictionary to learn or getting lost in the 100’s of wiki related domains. MyLocator.com and there 1300 vertical keyphrase domain network has no competition. Location engines are the future of search my friends, and he who has the greatest network of location engines just might win the game. NetworkLocator.com.

By: Webwatch

Webwatch — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:00:29 +0000

Techcrunch keeps talking about sites like Mahalo as if they are successful. Five million pageviews per month at a $.50 cpm, which is all a site like that is worth, is only $2500 per month in revenue. After $20MM in funding, and blogosphere hype, that does not sound successful to me, and others should not be trying to follow them. Also, their minimum wage-like revenues are at the mercy of Google’s search results.

All of this over-hyping of worthless models by conflicted bloggers is leading to 20 new sites per day launching, chasing after vapor-fortunes. Reminds me of 1998!