Mahalo Up and Down More Than the Stock Market

MahaloReports have been arriving in my inbox and on Twitter that Mahalo has been up and down the past couple of days. In my testing today, I get error messages on about 65% of page loads. So far no official word from Mahalo except postings that they are doing a movie screening tonight

We are also hearing that Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis is planning to reveal the new Mahalo 2.0 later this week at the Future of Web Apps conference in London. On a recent podcast, Calacanis noted that the site had 4.6 million unique visitors in August. Calacanis points to Quantcast as his favorite metric service as it shows a nice upward traffic trend for Mahalo (it's unverified traffic). Andrew Baron from Rocketboom pointed to Google Trends to show the complete opposite, a slow trending down in traffic. Perhaps all of their pages on the election are getting hit hard and that's causing the outages.

If you use Mahalo and are experiencing any errors please leave them in the comments. Here's what the page looks like when you receive the error message:

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Submitted by Anonymous on October 8, 2008 - 2:52pm.

who uses that piece of crap? it serves no value

Submitted by Richard M on October 8, 2008 - 6:12pm.

My thoughts exactly

Submitted by Chetan on October 8, 2008 - 2:54pm.

Right now all the pages that i opened, came up correctly.
An hour back, the first time i used Mahalo and opened a Obama related page, gave the same error as you showed in the post.

Submitted by Frank D on October 8, 2008 - 4:22pm.

Mahalo is possibly the least innovative site I have seen in a long time. Lets hope something new is actually on the horizon, because for now simply copying Wikipedia in your own format with ads is not cutting it. How can you even call this thing a search engine?

Submitted by Nick Stamoulis on October 8, 2008 - 7:56pm.

"But c'mon guys! Don't insult the site.. it's in BETA!" ;)

Submitted by sameer on October 8, 2008 - 9:34pm.

Mahalo does not serve an unmet need. Its pretty simple SEO play and will die its natural death due to the little value it brings for users. Prediction: Mahalo will be gone in 2010 (they probably have enough funds for 2009).

Submitted by Anonymous on October 9, 2008 - 11:37am.

I get encoding errors in Firefox 3. Might be some weird proxy conflict on my network, but it loads just fine in Safari and i don't have this problem with any other site.

Content Encoding Error

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.

* Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

Submitted by Michael J. Pratt on October 9, 2008 - 12:56pm.

It's ironic that Jason points to Quantcast as his favorite metric, yet because it's isn't "Quantified" we don't get accurate readings. All he has do do is drop the code and we'll know exactly. I love Quantcast but we're quantified. Why would he point to it if they weren't?

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