NBA Dirk Nowitzki Will Become Editor of Mahalo Search Engine Results
Always controversial John Calcanis believes that his newly released human-edited Mahalo 
search engine is going to offer top search results and be the next top engine that people will use alongside Google. Big name investors like Mark Cuban are on board, so it is possible that we will see his entire Dallas Mavericks basketball team special guest star as 12 of the existing human editors after being eliminated (embarrassed) quickly from the NBA playoffs.
My question is, will the search query “why did Dirk Nowitzki choke during the playoffs” be fairly answered?
The whole premise of building a team of 40 human editors that will hand-build quality search results for only the 
top queries (human bandwith issues) to combat spammy search results has about as much appeal as Mr. Garrison’s controversial but “extra enjoyable” method of steering his newly invented “Segway” transport in that South Park episode when he was fed up with long lines at the airport.
Basically, I would rather take my chances weeding through a few spammy machine-driven Google search results and find the handful of results that are most relevant to my search over some editors (that might not be an expert in a particular topic) telling me what sites are most relevant.
We all know Google doesn’t have perfect search results, and they have assigned experts (top educational institutions and experts in the field) to rate sites via their Google Coop system for important search topics such as Health related-topics. Unfortunately, these results are not featured on the same results page and the featured-links to see these hand-crafted results often goes unseen and mistaken for ads when people are searching Google for information.
Danny Sullivan makes a great point when he says “Overall, the best solution probably isn’t all human or all machine but some combination of the two.”
Until then, if Mahalo’s algo team can give me a better reason than Google or Yahoo! on why the Boston Celtics got screwed with the 5th pick of that 2007 NBA lottery, I’ll jump on board cause us boys in Boston are seriously searching for answers. Any thoughts Dirk No-Win-Ski?
Marc Cuban is a loser. I think Donald Trump’s recent comment about him sums it up:
“Mark Cuban is a guy who . . . puts so much pressure on the players. He wants to win so much, ya know, he wants to put himself in the position of the players. He wants to be a player, I guess. And he’s not a player . . . [Cuban] probably always wanted to be a winner all his life, and if ya look like him, you can’t be a winner. So he wants to put himself in the place of the players, so what happens is, the team choked.”
“Same thing with the Mavericks. The Mavericks have a great team. They’ll never win with Mark Cuban as the owner because he is not a winner.”
Comment by Pavel | May 31, 2007