Mahalo: a human-powered search engine October 18, 2007
Posted by Bertalan Meskó in Medical Search, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.trackback
Mahalo is a service that could be useful in medicine as well. Just check out the health category and see what a huge number of pages they have. Mahalo is unique because users can create their own search pages and earn money with that. Of course, in the field of medicine and health, it’s a bit dangerous whether a physician creates the collection of links or a layman. Anyway, it should serve as an additional source of information.
Mahalo is a human-powered search engine that creates organized, comprehensive, and spam free search results for the most popular search terms. Our search results only include great links.
Let’s see an example, the search page for Fragile X syndrome:
- Top 7 Links
- News, Facts
- Treatment Options, Clinical Trials, Symptoms
- Support and Foundations
- Blogs
You can recommend links or work in the Greenhouse to earn money with your own collection:
Check out Mahalo Blog and Mahalo FAQ for more!
Mahalo is a terrific site, but it’s not unique. Human-powered search has been around for some time, and other sites doing it include ChaCha and OrganizedWisdom. I’m biased toward OrganizedWisdom, because I work there, but I think it has two advantages for readers of this blog: 1) It’s focused exclusively on health, and 2) every page is reviewed by a physician. And, just like Mahalo, we welcome link recommendations and individuals who would like to earn money doing Web research! Check us out at http://www.organizedwisdom.com.
Nice to see you here, Pat!
Actually, I’ve been using OrganizedWisdom for a time now and compared to Mahalo, the really unique site is yours, you’re right.
I’ve always planned to dedicate a whole post to Organized Wisdom, maybe it’s the time. Anyway, an interview would be even more interesting. What do you think?