Substantial buzz has accompanied Jason Calacanis' startup debut of Mahalo, a search site with human editors refining the results for the currently 4,000 top search terms.
blog post about Mahalo with 32 straight 'Alphas'.
"Mahalo.com is in ALPHA--that means not ready for users, but looking for feedback," he wrote.
We've seen human-powered search before, notably with Danny Sullivan reminds us that Ask Jeeves once worked this way too.
At first glance, Mahalo looks like a Hawaiian-themed Yahoo, circa 1997, with its two-column layout of categories. Doing a query for one of the terms they have indexed, like
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