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Skype Failure a Sign that Mahalo Sucks?

August 16, 2007 |

MahaloAllen Stern of CenterNetworks uses the current Skype failure to dump on Jason Calacanis‘ human-powered search engine Mahalo:

As nearly everyone online knows by now, Skype is out of commission. It’s down for the count. I was one of the first people to post about the Skype outage this morning, and since then, hundreds of others have as well. It’s a hot topic on Google Hot Trends (#45), and I am seeing 500 people an hour from my first page Google result.

But where is the Mahalo page? The Mahalo Skype page has 3 headlines of which 2 are semi-outage related. Otherwise, searching for “Skype down” or “Skype outage” provides no result. Yet Google has indexed my page from 6AM and already shows it as one of the top pages.

Actually, if you enter “Skype” as a search term now, Mahalo offers to take you to the “Skype Outage” site on Mahalo, which has a good dozen links to sites with more info and promises to add more updates as they become available.

Also, it’s funny how Allens title’s the article with “Mahalo is Doomed,” but ends up saying that because Jason regularly gets the how-to pages on Mahalo onto digg, reddit (don’t think I have seen one there, by the way!), he will do just fine. So what is it?


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