Comments on: Who needs algorithms? http://aaronmentele.com/2007/05/31/who-needs-algorithms/ personal blog of Aaron Mentele, web developer and partner at Electric Pulp Fri, 09 Mar 2012 04:22:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ZapTXT Blog » Blog Archive » Mahalo: Is this service begging for RSS feeds or what? http://aaronmentele.com/2007/05/31/who-needs-algorithms/comment-page-1/#comment-15327 ZapTXT Blog » Blog Archive » Mahalo: Is this service begging for RSS feeds or what? Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:41:07 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2007/05/31/who-needs-algorithms/#comment-15327 [...] RSS can help you make sure your audience sticks with you whilst you a) grow the content base, b) make your objective for this site a little clearer and 3) turn drive-by’s into trusting subscribers. Give me a feed for the [...] [...] RSS can help you make sure your audience sticks with you whilst you a) grow the content base, b) make your objective for this site a little clearer and 3) turn drive-by’s into trusting subscribers. Give me a feed for the [...]

]]> By: Griffin http://aaronmentele.com/2007/05/31/who-needs-algorithms/comment-page-1/#comment-15326 Griffin Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:02:14 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2007/05/31/who-needs-algorithms/#comment-15326 y! or msn :) //g y! or msn :) //g

]]> By: Aaron Mentele http://aaronmentele.com/2007/05/31/who-needs-algorithms/comment-page-1/#comment-15319 Aaron Mentele Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:21:29 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2007/05/31/who-needs-algorithms/#comment-15319 It's tough to say what their intent is. But even the fact that "Today's Top 20 Searches" are featured more prominently on the results page than anything else (including the search results themselves) demonstrates that Calacanis has brought his background into this project. You make an interesting point about Mahalo's (secret) target audience being non-savvy grandmotherly types. I didn't know those people got frustrated with Google, though - I thought they spent their time at Yahoo! It’s tough to say what their intent is. But even the fact that “Today’s Top 20 Searches” are featured more prominently on the results page than anything else (including the search results themselves) demonstrates that Calacanis has brought his background into this project.

You make an interesting point about Mahalo’s (secret) target audience being non-savvy grandmotherly types. I didn’t know those people got frustrated with Google, though – I thought they spent their time at Yahoo!

]]> By: jdbartlett http://aaronmentele.com/2007/05/31/who-needs-algorithms/comment-page-1/#comment-15318 jdbartlett Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:18:52 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2007/05/31/who-needs-algorithms/#comment-15318 To split a hair, "what's popular" is the outcome, not the intent. The intent is spam-free safe search for those who don't know how. It's hard to tag this kind of target audience without making Mahalo sound like internet for idiots, but lots of people submit generic Google searches and click random results. Mahalo wants to be the site recommended to aunties and grandmas frustrated by Google. It's remedial search. To split a hair, “what’s popular” is the outcome, not the intent. The intent is spam-free safe search for those who don’t know how. It’s hard to tag this kind of target audience without making Mahalo sound like internet for idiots, but lots of people submit generic Google searches and click random results. Mahalo wants to be the site recommended to aunties and grandmas frustrated by Google. It’s remedial search.

]]> By: Alt search at Aaron Mentele, Charisma:18 http://aaronmentele.com/2007/05/31/who-needs-algorithms/comment-page-1/#comment-15317 Alt search at Aaron Mentele, Charisma:18 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:30:13 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2007/05/31/who-needs-algorithms/#comment-15317 [...] like only yesterday I was saying that “social participation (especially in the form of community ranking) has a [...] [...] like only yesterday I was saying that “social participation (especially in the form of community ranking) has a [...]

]]> By: Aaron Mentele http://aaronmentele.com/2007/05/31/who-needs-algorithms/comment-page-1/#comment-15313 Aaron Mentele Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:03:54 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2007/05/31/who-needs-algorithms/#comment-15313 If Wikipedia paid a team of experts to populate the entries, they'd have problems scaling. Not only does Mahalo need to write and categorize, they need to prune bad content / links for as long as they exist. That's a decent amount of work. Who knows? Maybe the internets will get smaller and become more manageable. If Wikipedia paid a team of experts to populate the entries, they’d have problems scaling. Not only does Mahalo need to write and categorize, they need to prune bad content / links for as long as they exist. That’s a decent amount of work.

Who knows? Maybe the internets will get smaller and become more manageable.

]]> By: Deane http://aaronmentele.com/2007/05/31/who-needs-algorithms/comment-page-1/#comment-15310 Deane Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:56:42 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2007/05/31/who-needs-algorithms/#comment-15310 I'm tempted to say that something like this would never scale, but I said the same thing about Wikipedia back in the day. I’m tempted to say that something like this would never scale, but I said the same thing about Wikipedia back in the day.

]]> By: Griffin http://aaronmentele.com/2007/05/31/who-needs-algorithms/comment-page-1/#comment-15309 Griffin Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:50:12 +0000 http://charisma18.com/2007/05/31/who-needs-algorithms/#comment-15309 Obviously several VC guys are banking some money on these human-generated results or whatever. I have yet to use one that I thought was all that great (including mahalo). So, I'm with you, I'm also stuck using Google for the time being. //g Obviously several VC guys are banking some money on these human-generated results or whatever. I have yet to use one that I thought was all that great (including mahalo). So, I’m with you, I’m also stuck using Google for the time being. //g

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