Mahalo is the world’s first human-powered search engine.
Mahalo is the world’s first human-powered search engine powered by an enthusiastic and energetic group of Guides. Our Guides spend their days searching, filtering out spam, and hand-crafting the best search results possible. If they haven’t yet built a search result, you can request that search result. You can also suggest links for any of our search results.
What does Mahalo mean?
- Mahalo is Hawaiian for Thank you.
Mahalo.com Fact Sheet
- Company Name: Mahalo.com, Inc.
- Located: 10,000 square foot factory in Santa Monica.
- Category: Human-powered search.
- Launch Time/Date: 3PM PST, May 30th 2007.
- Launch location: Wall Street Journal’s D Conference, Four Seasons Aviara (northern San Diego). D Conference Website: http://d.wsj.com.
- Product Launch Schedule: Currently in Alpha with the Internet’s 4,000 most popular searches; will move to Beta at the end of 2007 with 10,000 pages, and launch shortly thereafter.
- Founder & CEO: Jason McCabe Calacanis, 36 years old.
- Previously: CEO of Weblogs, Inc. Weblogs, Inc. was purchased by AOL/TW for a reported $30M; CEO of Silicon Alley Reporter magazine and Venture Reporter; purchased by Dow Jones.
- Investment: Two rounds, amount undisclosed.
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