Mahalo is still not a business that can be taken seriously

 

 

Mahalo ranked 69th last week among Search Engines and received 0.02% of all US Internet visits to Search Engines compared with Google's 55.52%. 

Mahalo appeals more to younger Internet users, 18-24 year olds in particular. The following chart compares Mahalo's visits by age group to the US online population. As you can see 18-24 year olds were 36.67% more likely to be on Mahalo.com than average.

 

 

Mahalo receives most of its traffic from Search Engines (76% last week) and sends most of its traffic to Entertainment (37%) and News and Media (19%) websites. Visitors seem particularly interested in games websites such as GameSpot, IGN Cheats and Game FAQs and News and Media websites, in particular, Google News and other online news sources.

Mahalo is the people magazine of the internet. It's filled with the popular stuff, and if you put enough popular stuff in close proximity you start to generate traffic. It'll be interesting to see what Mahalo becomes, and whether or not they'll be able to keep the information and links fresh. Maintaining Mahalo doesn't get cheaper over time.

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Mahalo breaks 25,000 pages and announces Creative Commons License

 

 

Human-powered search engine Mahalo.com has revealed that its index of search result pages has hit the company's goal of 25,000 pages by the end of 2008, a year earlier than originally expected.

Additionally Mahalo will be making the entire index available in both RSS and OPML formats, and under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. This license allows individuals to use Mahalo results in a non-commercial setting, without having to ask permission.

Santa Monica-based Mahalo.com is backed by investors including Sequoia Capital, Elon Musk, Newscorp, CBS Corporation, Matt Coffin, Mark Cuban, Ted Leonsis, Jon Miller, Attractor Investment Management, and Hubert Burda Media. The company launched in beta May 30th, 2007.

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Mahalo builds social search network

 

 

Mahalo has rolled up quite a big and interesting update today: Mahalo Social. You can now recommend links, make friends on Mahalo, share links you've recommended with friends, and much more.

Your level of participation counts with Mahalo Social—recommend great links and your rank rises on our leaderboard.

Your profile can contain info about your other social networking profiles such as Facebook, LinkedIn or Pownce; you can recommend new links for Mahalo search results; you can track your submissions on Mahalo; you can discuss on any page on Mahalo.

 

 

Mahalo has seen some steady growth and now appears to be combining features fromtraditional search, Digg.com and Wikipedia.com.  Whatever the outcome at Mahalo, this is an exciting avenue to explore.

 

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