If only Google Would do What Mahalo Does: ASK FOR HELP!

I’ve spent ALL FREAKING DAY researching a subject. Chances are, since it’s probably a subject that many other people are also searching for and not finding satisfactory results for, Google knows in some way, computationally or otherwise, that there is this particular search pattern that ends up being a day-long process for the users conducting the search.

Is it part of Google’s NO-EVIL plan to withhold from us where the holes in the communal knowledge of the Web are? If they are at around 90% of the search market share, is it not a little bit evil to hold on to information about how we are failing to communicate with each other as a species in the interest of preserving their business plan?

Google:

Please start asking for help. Mahalo.com does.  Google, please make a public database of “failing searches” so people in the industries related to those searches can jump in and fill the void.  Jeeez.

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One Response to “If only Google Would do What Mahalo Does: ASK FOR HELP!”

  1. Matthew Wayne Selznick Says:
    March 31, 2008 at 10:06 am

    Hi Andrew!

    Sorry to read about your research frustration — have you asked us over here at Mahalo to help you out yet? If you’re on Twitter, follow “mahalotodo,” direct a request to @mahalotodo, and we’ll see your request. Or simply e-mail me and I’ll make sure someone available in-house or in the Mahalo Greenhouse (http://greenhouse.mahalo.com) works on it as soon as possible.

    Mahalo!

    Matthew Wayne Selznick
    Community Manager
    Mahalo Greenhouse
    http://greenhouse.mahalo.com
    http://www.mahalo.com

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