A start-up search engine, Mahalo (Hawaiian for Thank You) wants to be the search engine that is uniquely created on user content and visits. Instead of randomly generating search queries that constantly update through various bots that visit your site. They are willing to hire a team of searchers that have a grasp of social networking sites (facebook, myspace, etc.) to create their list of search results, and here’s is a good thing, if you results are relevant you’ll be paid 12 to 15 dollars per search. Many of the users must be willing to provide relevant results and have web 2.0 experience.

In my opinion, Mahalo might be the next wave of search engines but only time will tell. Every search engine that has recently come out wants to be the ultimate Google Killer but all of them fall short of what Google has to offer. This search engine may have promise because the searches are coming from visitors that use the net constantly. Most search engines are regulated by internet bots that crawl your site and those results are fed in to a large computer that determines how your site ranks. These internet bots are at fault because many sites are copies or spam that filter through the system. This is where the individual visitor comes in; they can tell if a site is spam and through the results have a better ability for comparison. I guess only time will be able to if we really will say Mahalo to this search engine.

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