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Today my team launched our latest project Mahalo.com. It’s a human-powered search engine. We’ve already completed the top 4,000 search terms on the Internet and we hope to do 10,000 by the end of the year.Our Mission: To help people…. a lot.Please take a look at our results and compare the ones we have side by side with machine powered search by folks like Google, Ask, Yahoo, Technorati, AOL, and MSN. I think you’ll find that humans can really help [...]
Original post by Jason Calacanis and software by Elliott Back
Last couple of weeks I’ve had some pain in my shoulder. I think it started after I got my medicine balls–perhaps I overdid it for a couple of workouts.
Today I start doing some research on shoulder pain and came across this wikipedia page which was really comprehensive. I thought, dang… who the heck is writing this page. This feels too good to be in Wikipedia frankly.
So, I clicked on the discussion pages and the history and found out that the page had a very small number of edits for the first three years (2003-2005), and less than 100 edits overall. This article cold not have a been created with that small a number of edits.
Then I looked at the first edit and it seems the person cut and pasted this NIH article to make the Wikipedia article…http://www.niams.nih.gov/hi/topics/shoulderprobs/shoulderqa.htm
Someone questioned if this was really public domain on the talk page, but doesn’t [...]
Original post by Jason Calacanis and software by Elliott Back