Recently I wrote about Mahalo, the human powered search engine.
Now, we're talking more seriously about how our editing muscle might help make search better. And so is Newsweek. (Thanks for finding this, Bob Yates.)
So there may be a bright future for editors after all. And to give proper credit where credit is due, that hopeful thought has been voiced before -- for instance in the otherwise gloomy "Googlezon" video, a tale of the death of newspapers first released on the Internet back in 2005 or so.
There was some talk here this morning about how newsrooms could help in human powered search. That brought to my mind a new search site that's getting funding and buzz, Mahalo. Here's how they state their mission:
- Mahalo's goal is to hand-write and maintain the top 50,000 search terms
- Each Mahalo page is quality controlled through a strict editorial process
- You can contribute and earn money by writing great search result pages in the Mahalo Greenhouse
In the past six months, some of the digerati notably, Robert Scoble, have been suggesting this kind of editorial effort could succeed Google, which relies on computer algorithms.
There was some talk here this morning about how newsrooms could help in human powered search. That brought to my mind a new search site that's getting funding and buzz, Mahalo. Here's how they state their mission:
- Mahalo's goal is to hand-write and maintain the top 50,000 search terms
- Each Mahalo page is quality controlled through a strict editorial process
- You can contribute and earn money by writing great search result pages in the Mahalo Greenhouse
In the past six months, some of the digerati notably, Robert Scoble, have been suggesting this kind of editorial effort could succeed Google, which relies on computer algorithms.