Re:A Week After Google Changes Algo, Mahalo Fires 10% of Staff
by ZachPruckowski on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @11:35PM
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He was an early Web 1.0 entrepreneur who founded Silicon Alley Reporter (which failed) and Weblogs, Inc (which got bought out by AOL). He's sort of a "startup celebrity" in the sense that he's (a) opinionated and (b) good at getting those opinions into people's faces. He's involved in a wide range of stuff in the startup-support ecosystem, and he's also the founder of Mahalo. He describes Mahalo as "people-powered search", as in you search for something on Mahalo and you get a professionally written page, but detractors think he's about one step removed from a content farm.
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Re:A Week After Google Changes Algo, Mahalo Fires 10% of Staff
by mvandemar on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @10:01AM
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Not sure where you get the "one step removed" bit. It is a content farm, at least in the places where it isn't simply copies of Wikipedia or autogenerated text.
Re:A Week After Google Changes Algo, Mahalo Fires 10% of Staff
by billmcneale on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @09:42PM
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These detractors seem to be on to something since Mahalo just laid off 10% of its workforce right after Google acted against content farmers.
That does say something about the content that Mahalo produces, doesn't it?