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Apr200824

bsamii

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Mahalo: Search Powered By Humans

mahalo search engine

Recently there’s been some buzz about Mahalo (something about rolling out microformats) so I decided to take a closer look at this site and I am, for the most part, impressed.
Mahalo is basically a new breed of search engine wiki-based search directory that relies on humans to power it. The idea is that users provide and submit links which should provide better search results by filtering out a lot of the spammy, irrelevant content that are indexed by the traditional search engines.
What I like most about it is that search results are presented in a very organized, intuitive way along with a lot of great complimentary information. All of this with a very usable and clean UI and very few paid ads to detract you from the results.
For example, I recently did a search for boston celtics and received a page segmented into relevant information and vital stats [...]

Apr200821

bsamii

0

Google Is Still Master of the F**king Universe

With no surprise, Google has retained it’s title as the most powerful global brand (back-to-back wins) with a valuation of $86 Billion — just two years ago they were in 7th place while MSFT held top position.
According to Millward Brown’s BrandZ Top 100 Ranking, this years top 10 look like this:
1. Google ($86 Billion)
2. General Electric ($71 Billion)
3. Microsoft ($70 Billion)
4. Coca-Cola ($58 Billion)
5. China Mobile ($57 Billion)
6. IBM ($55 Billion)
7. Apple ($55 Billion)
8. McDonalds ($49 Billion)
9. Nokia ($43 Billion)
10. Marlboro ($37 Billion)
and…
62. Yahoo ($11.5 Billion)
Does this mean that even if Microsoft ($70 B) acquires Yahoo ($11.5 B), the combined brand value will still not match up to the search goliath?

Dec200707

bsamii

1

The Best Internet Radio Stations Aggregated- FilterMusic

filtermusic

Here is a great list of free internet radio stations compiled by FilterMusic. This simple directory provides an aggregated list of free, high quality (128 kbps) online radio channels by different music categories.