What do you think of a human powered SE's not human edited...

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Looks like Jason Calacanis beat Jimmy Wales to the finish line. Calacanis just launched the alpha version of his human-powered search engine, Mahalo.com.

    Serial entrepreneur Jason McCabe Calacanis today launched Mahalo.com, a human-powered search engine, at the Wall Street Journal?s D Conference. The site is currently being launched in Alpha with the Internet?s 4,000 most popular search terms completed. The Santa Monica-based company hopes to reach 10,000 search terms by the end of the year. At that point it will enter Beta, and launch shortly thereafter.

    The site is focused on the top English-language search terms, including verticals such as travel, products, news, entertainment, sports, food, and health. ?Google?s mission is to index the world?s information; our mission is to curate that wonderful index,? said Calacanis. ?It?s my belief that humans can play a significant role in the development of search results and we?re going to try to figure out exactly what that role is over the next couple of years. I am really looking forward to hearing what people think of the Alpha,? he added.

If anybody still remembers, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales was earlier reported to be developing a user-contributed search engine called Wikiasari.

maybe something big in a few years?

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Interesting, but I believe the future is in the search engines that use social bookmark data. I think delicious is going to create such a search engine.

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Interesting, but I believe the future is in the search engines that use social bookmark data. I think delicious is going to create such a search engine.

I agree too, but I was a bit curious as both of them used different methods... the latter exploits the wikis human editing capabilities and search capabilities, while the other may have scripted it out...

Who wants to make a project like that? we have a bunch of people here who I think are pretty excellent coders and specialists, maybe start our own project scripts pages?

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I would love to start over a big open source project, but this is really huge and I think that here you don't need just coders but many kinds of scientists

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I have a bunch of ideas bothering me but I don't know where to start... 3 years ago I was talking about what exactly is now digg, and youtube...

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That's the nature of internet. I saw a lot of my ideas  being created by others in the past.

The target is to start it first, not think it first. And if you think of it, it is almost impossible to have an idea that none in the internet (which has more than 1 billion people) had thought of

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yeah, thats why I'm planning to go back to school to get my fundamentals right, I know machine language and ROM(ASCII) language when starting from scratch but the fundamentals for the internet's several languages escape me...

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