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Let’s see (this is about Mahalo, right?) they’ve raised…17 million

We generate more pageviews per visitor than they do (they are quantified…so, their stats are public).

And, FunAdvice is *bigger* in the US market than Mahalo…I just compared our Google Analytics unique visitors over the last month to Mahalo’s quantified stats. We beat them by about 80K visitors / month…and since 1/2 the world’s ad spend is in the US…well, I’m OK with losing to them (for now) internationally

Last…instead of thread hijacking, why not use some DMCA reference, or learn something about the internet before you say that just b/c content is there, somebody can hijack it?

Does Google, Yahoo, or MSN have that attitude? no, thus, robots.txt…and, btw: if you want to bash somebody why not put your reputation at stake rather than doing it where the world won’t know who you are?

BTW…buzzillions.com has had a q&a feature on their shopping site for a while, and of course, fixya is the leader in “social shopping q&a” from looking at their quantcast stats & reading here.

So…well, this is good press for imshopping at least, as they have a uphill battle. They have a neat toolset, though

http://www.inst...id/Mothers-Day/

…. buying nothing?

Why does everyone think that the way to show love is with purchases?

Make something yourself. A photo album, a set of pictures. Create a silly song.

Try to spend the least money and the most time on the gift.

2. You are whining only because Mahalo is your competitor and bigger than you. You have a pronounced sense of insecurity.

3. Change your company name to Sour grape Advice.

Similarly, services like FriendFeed or Facebook even clearly show my Tweets as being Tweets, not re-purposing them.

Still, I am not really mad. IMshopping is the one who should be mad. Mahalo Answers is getting in between them and their users.

Btw, did mahalo patent this idea? Also how does Yahoo! answers feel about this? I dont think anyone cares. Fact is IMshopping seems to be focused on a niche that is useful to almost everyone out there. Shopping. I look forward to seeing how much more interesting and useful this will become.

Imho…this is theft. Yes, you can compare to Google all you want, however, with Google there is a robots.txt file you can put in place if you *don’t* want them indexing your stuff. Simple, easily understood AND they give you the tools to do it.

How do I tell Mahalo Answers to f$$$ right off? They don’t obey robots.txt? No? Ok, so, if we pull this same stunt & cite “fair use” is that going to hold water? No?

Gee…if we can’t do it to them, they can’t do it to another company (or site).

And, seriously…Q&A’s been around a long time…allexperts, wondir, keen, etc, etc…our site started doing Q&A in 2003, before any of the current largest Q&A sites existed (we beat Answerbag by a few months in launching…). So the claim of “IMShopping stole Mahalo’s thing” is complete BS. It also comes across as a completely clueless sound byte.

You can choose to make your tweets private, so that only the intended parties can see (and steal) them.