2 years ago, mid-March
Mahalo.com a really bad idea
Posted by pbirnie under technology

http://mahalo.com/ are these founders and investors on drugs? Its a hand crafted search engine targeted at head queries - but as anyone who works in search or has read "the long tail" knows - head queries do not cover a large percentage of total queries (around 2% of queries). Ok, so perhaps you can scale it using web2.0 techniques of getting your users to rate and filter sites - so its another delicious or diigo - What I really don't get is why some investors with good background would invest in such a stupid idea.
