Trying Mahalo for a Week

Posted on August 26, 2007, under Search, Tools and Services.

Note: I am not employed, endorsed, or in any way associated with Mahalo or any other of Jason Calacanis’s properties.

Today is Monday, the start of a new week. I have decided to try Mahalo, the new “Human Powered Search Engine” by Jason Calacanis, for an entire week. I have started by installing the Firefox search extension and will be using it for every primary search this week. This means when I need to search for something, I will be trying Mahalo first and then resorting to traditional search methods as a fall back. I feel that the hardest thing to get use to during this trial is not having to weed through search results myself, as Mahalo’s guides compile the “best” of all links into a customized page.

I have decided to try this experiment with Mahalom and other non-Google search engines, primarily because I feel a lot of us get stuck in our ways of doing things and then it becomes that much harder to eventually branch out. I have decided to start with Mahalo, because it is a far reach outside the traditional search engines.

I hope you come back for a full review next Monday.

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