Your grandma will not have to decide between Mahalo and Google. Mahalo is being built to compliment and better Google’s results so your grandma will not have to look at spam. Mahalo will replace corrupt dmoz.

Of course this comment is not based on fact. Just my opinion.

2. AboutUs seems to be a directory of people and places… we’re more of a search result. Also, they let anyone edit the page while we maintain the page with feedback and debate (on the message boards). I think it’s two very different things. AboutUs seems more like WhoIs or Spock–I think AboutUs might be something we link to frankly.

3. Sustainability. Well, people told me that Weblogs, Inc. would not be sustainable four years ago. However, we hit 300 bloggers and 10,000+ blog posts a month. We did that with very little resources. We have much deeper resources now so we will have no problem getting from 4,000 to 10,000 to 25,000 results–it will just take a LOT of time. That is why I funded the company so deeply. Additionally, we hope the audience will help us make these page better. Take a look at the Twitter or Apple SeRP and you’ll see the public is already sending in quality links.

4. Are we an SEO master? If Google wants to index us well that’s fine with us, but our model is not based on being well indexed in Google or Yahoo. Our model is in creating human curated search results that are very helpful to users. Compare the product to the product and let me know what you think. Compare iPhone, Paris Hotels, Pizza, and Flatpanel TV on Mahalo to those same searches on google, yahoo, ask, msn, and wikipedia. That is what this is really about… not these other issues.

I agree with your point that Mahalo pages may very likely climb quickly in standard search results (much like Wikipedia). I don’t think this is necessarily a bad thing, although it is frustrating from the publisher’s perspective when the source doesn’t rank as high as the page that references it.

Whether Mahalo will catch on or not ultimately is a matter of trust. What or who do I trust more? Google’s relevance algorhythm or Mahalo’s editors?

More of my initial impressions of Mahalo.

Way to go Jason! Is Pets.com 2.0 your next bit of secretive genius? How about Webvan 2.0?

There’s no there there.

Nothing’s changing in the search industry that’s going to knock off Google.

Do you remember when Google appeared? It blew AltaVista and HotBot out of the freaking water.

This is going to be a blip.

Actually how is this concept different then AOL was 15 years ago? Why are we retreating back to internet v.05? I thought we took a vote and decided to move into internet 3.0 by 2010?

However, it is more extended in polish version – http://dabu.pl