Jason Calacanis reinvents the Yahoo directory
05/30 2007 | 06:07 PM
Posted by: Janko Roettgers
... and calls it Mahalo. According to Techcrunch it's only gonna take him 19 months to come up with 25.000 search results.
Just as a frame of reference: Wikipedia is growing at a rate of roughly 1700 articles per day. Del.icio.us currently gets between 3000 and 6000 posts per hour.
Of course, sometimes a picture says more than a thousand stats ...
Just as a frame of reference: Wikipedia is growing at a rate of roughly 1700 articles per day. Del.icio.us currently gets between 3000 and 6000 posts per hour.
Of course, sometimes a picture says more than a thousand stats ...
jasoncalacanis wrote:
1. Google has lost of spam for common terms like "Paris Hotel" or "Flatpanel TV." Long tail searches? Of course Google is best.
2. Wikipedia doesn't do many external links, they are on the bottom, and they are not a search engine--but a great encyclopedia of course!
3. Delicious is great for tech stuff and obscure/unique links, but it's not for non-tech folks at this point.
So, for something like Paris Hotels, iPhone, Flatpanel TV, or Breast Cancer I think we can play an important curation role on the web.
Also, what's the cost of using Mahalo if we give you Google when we don't have a result? None. What's the payoff? Well, spam free, organized, and high-quality links quickly on one page.
It's not all about numbers. :-)
Mahalo for the feedback, and give us some time! Check back in six months and do some apples to apples comparisons.