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SES New York: Calacanis Pitches Mahalo Social

Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis, after stirring up some controversy at his last SES keynote address, was invited to speak again at the SES Conference in New York, and his tone regarding SEO was a bit softer.SES New York is here again, and WebProNews is there to bring you reports and videos from the Big Apple. Enjoy our coverage this week.

The Irony of Mahalo Traffic Growth

A couple of weeks ago, Heather Hopkins at Hitwise noted that the human-powered Mahalo search engine has been showing a very strong curve of increasing traffic:

Hitwise Gives Mahalo Search Share Update

Everyone knows that, when a graph's vertical axis goes to 100, whatever is plotted on it will look very different than if that axis went to 1,000.  So here's Mahalo's good news/bad news situation: a certain diagram makes its growth look astounding, yet it's still leagues behind Google, Yahoo, and even Ask.

Mahalo Making Social Improvements

Mahalo, everyone’s favorite human-powered search engine and Jason Calacanis venture, has announced a few more “socially” improvements to its site. One of the major updates leverages other social media sites; the other is frankly patterned after another.

Calacanis Gets Free SEO Report For Mahalo

It maybe that Jason Calacanis just likes stirring up the SEO crowd, or it could be that he really feels a certain way about them. Either way, the hostility that met him at the beginning of the week meets him again at its close.

Facebook Killing Google? Um, No

Some buzz centered on Robert Scoble's contention that properties like Facebook and human-edited search engine Mahalo add up to a Google-free future misses out on an important factor.

Cutts Thinks Google Is Human

Matt Cutts says there is more to Google than the churning of computers. He talked about the role of people in the search process.

Mahalo - Search Results Inside Search Results?

So I was just reading a post by Graywolf about the Mahalo blog giving out nice free links to sites they would never include in their own search results for being to ’spammy’ and started poking around the new human search engine.

Automated Content Development & Moral Dilemmas

Fantomaster had a great comment about whether automated content generation is moral:

Mahalo To Curate Web Search

Substantial buzz has accompanied Jason Calacanis' startup debut of Mahalo, a search site with human editors refining the results for the currently 4,000 top search terms. "Mahalo To Curate Web Search"