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Mahalo Sucks; Needs Money

Posted in Computers & Technology, Google by Elliott Back on November 16th, 2007.

Valleywag is saying that Mahalo needs another $20M, even though it already received that sum just 6 months ago. Give me $3,000,000 a month and I’ll be able to come out with a site that barely gets more interest than my own. They have a nice design and front page, but there’s no way they can displace Google with human-edited search results.

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Did I mention the traffic? Oh I did.

It’s cute that you can add MahaloToDo to your post (please write an article about Asps), but not particularly useful. It’s also cute that one of their subject-matter teams is playing video games.

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Ah, so that’s where the money really went. That and looking for ” Vanessa Hudgens Nude Photos,” their most popular search term. That and that their content is basically just a hand-built keyword aggregator that you could automate and build out with a cheap cluster of servers and simple algorithms.

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