Comments on: Mahalo: POS Search Engine! http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/mahalo-pos-search-engine/ Comments on blogs about making money blogging. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:56:55 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Lucia http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/mahalo-pos-search-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-1795 Lucia Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:44:39 +0000 http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/mahalo-pos-search-engine/#comment-1795 Carrie, that's very interesting. I see you're from near Chicago too. I was quite disappointed in the results for Chicago. Sure, they got some good stuff. But really, it <i>seemed</i> like a list put together by someone who'd never been to Chicago! Hopefully, no tourists end up deciding to take a tour of Northwestern Universities Chicago campus based on that Mahalo guide. I mean, <i>yes</i>, officially, there is a campus. But, as a tourist, you're kind of hoping to see students and faculty on a campus, not ambulances, hospital beds and doctors offices! (Ok. The law school is hidden somewhere in there too.) Carrie, that’s very interesting. I see you’re from near Chicago too. I was quite disappointed in the results for Chicago. Sure, they got some good stuff. But really, it seemed like a list put together by someone who’d never been to Chicago!

Hopefully, no tourists end up deciding to take a tour of Northwestern Universities Chicago campus based on that Mahalo guide. I mean, yes, officially, there is a campus. But, as a tourist, you’re kind of hoping to see students and faculty on a campus, not ambulances, hospital beds and doctors offices! (Ok. The law school is hidden somewhere in there too.)

]]> By: Carrie http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/mahalo-pos-search-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-1793 Carrie Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:51:31 +0000 http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/mahalo-pos-search-engine/#comment-1793 I was accepted to do some SERPs a while back, but what I found was that they just wanted you to use yahoo, msn and a few other sites that they thought were "good" (although a lot of their content is paid through content agreements too) resources and not really interested in what I thought was supposed to be more like real, honest (wikipediaish) research providing links to real answers to people's questions. The process was archaic too on how we were supposed to create these serps and follow some SEO type format that they never really clarified. So I never completed any and haven't been back since. I especially was dismayed when I tried some searches myself and found it wasn't very good for what I was looking for either. I wouldn't be suprised if they have paid traffic deals to those sites they recommended for SERPS and are making money per UVs. I was accepted to do some SERPs a while back, but what I found was that they just wanted you to use yahoo, msn and a few other sites that they thought were “good” (although a lot of their content is paid through content agreements too) resources and not really interested in what I thought was supposed to be more like real, honest (wikipediaish) research providing links to real answers to people’s questions.

The process was archaic too on how we were supposed to create these serps and follow some SEO type format that they never really clarified. So I never completed any and haven’t been back since. I especially was dismayed when I tried some searches myself and found it wasn’t very good for what I was looking for either.

I wouldn’t be suprised if they have paid traffic deals to those sites they recommended for SERPS and are making money per UVs.

]]> By: Lucia http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/mahalo-pos-search-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-1386 Lucia Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:22:53 +0000 http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/mahalo-pos-search-engine/#comment-1386 I should have added.... I'm amazed that Venture Capitalists found the idea of Mahalo attractive. JC must have Svengali like power over VC's! I should have added…. I’m amazed that Venture Capitalists found the idea of Mahalo attractive. JC must have Svengali like power over VC’s!

]]> By: Lucia http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/mahalo-pos-search-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-1385 Lucia Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:19:48 +0000 http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/mahalo-pos-search-engine/#comment-1385 @CyberCelt -- Actually.... I suspect the connection bewteen "knitting" and "gay marriage" is due to the flaws in their correlation detection scheme. (And based on Jason's response to why using Mahalo Follow resulted in "suggested" correlations with the rock star "Pink", I believe Jason doesn't really understand the flaws.) The problem is that on the web: a) Knitting terms of all sorts, and that one in particular, are positively correlated with "Lucia" (and the signal would pop out above the noise.) b) "Gay marriage and/or Same Sex Marriage" are positively correlated with "Lucia" (and the signal would pop out above the noise.) c) Same sex and / or Gay marriage is often discussed on a variety of knitting blogs. d) The word "same" is correlated with gay marriage. I suspect that Mahalo concludes this implies that "knitting into the same stitch" and "gay marriage" have something to do with each other. I mean... look at all those correlated things! :) If Jason's engineers don't fix this, soon "knitting" pages will be correlated with "Wordpress Plugins!" @CyberCelt — Actually…. I suspect the connection bewteen “knitting” and “gay marriage” is due to the flaws in their correlation detection scheme. (And based on Jason’s response to why using Mahalo Follow resulted in “suggested” correlations with the rock star “Pink”, I believe Jason doesn’t really understand the flaws.)

The problem is that on the web:

a) Knitting terms of all sorts, and that one in particular, are positively correlated with “Lucia” (and the signal would pop out above the noise.)

b) “Gay marriage and/or Same Sex Marriage” are positively correlated with “Lucia” (and the signal would pop out above the noise.)

c) Same sex and / or Gay marriage is often discussed on a variety of knitting blogs.

d) The word “same” is correlated with gay marriage.

I suspect that Mahalo concludes this implies that “knitting into the same stitch” and “gay marriage” have something to do with each other. I mean… look at all those correlated things! :)

If Jason’s engineers don’t fix this, soon “knitting” pages will be correlated with “Wordpress Plugins!”

]]> By: CyberCelt http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/mahalo-pos-search-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-1380 CyberCelt Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:27:33 +0000 http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/mahalo-pos-search-engine/#comment-1380 All you have to do to mess with Mahalo is submit your email and add a new word to the hit list. I guess someone did it for gay marriage and knitting. I wonder if their results were "hand written?" Girl, we just need to come up with something stupid that will make the venture capitalists foam at the mouth. Jason had VCs throwing money at him. LOL ---------- Okay, now is this comment the right length or did I ramble? To tell you the truth, I deleted 2 paragraphs! All you have to do to mess with Mahalo is submit your email and add a new word to the hit list. I guess someone did it for gay marriage and knitting. I wonder if their results were “hand written?”

Girl, we just need to come up with something stupid that will make the venture capitalists foam at the mouth. Jason had VCs throwing money at him. LOL

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Okay, now is this comment the right length or did I ramble? To tell you the truth, I deleted 2 paragraphs!

]]> By: The Knitting Fiend » Blog Archive » Raggedy Ann Haiku http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/mahalo-pos-search-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-1362 The Knitting Fiend » Blog Archive » Raggedy Ann Haiku Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:55:34 +0000 http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/mahalo-pos-search-engine/#comment-1362 [...] even though my post on Jason Calacanis’s new “human powered search engine that will put Google out of business&... won’t help your blog or store, knitters might be amused by screen shot of some results. [...] [...] even though my post on Jason Calacanis’s new “human powered search engine that will put Google out of business&… won’t help your blog or store, knitters might be amused by screen shot of some results. [...]

]]> By: Michelle Gartner http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/mahalo-pos-search-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-473 Michelle Gartner Thu, 02 Aug 2007 07:15:37 +0000 http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/mahalo-pos-search-engine/#comment-473 Ha ha- you get a digg from me, that was hilarious... Ha ha- you get a digg from me, that was hilarious…

]]> By: Cass http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/mahalo-pos-search-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-461 Cass Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:23:53 +0000 http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/mahalo-pos-search-engine/#comment-461 Bwahahahahahah! Idjit. Bwahahahahahah! Idjit.

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