Mahalo, the human-powered search engine, has launched two new features that can aid in saving you some time while cruising the Web.
First up is version 3.0 of their FollowMe feature. Now when you want to recommend a page you come across, you can submit to Del.icio.us, Magnolia, Mahalo Social, and Twitter all from the same screen. It will save you a couple steps, and if you don’t want to submit it to any given service, you can uncheck any of the boxes. It will also added a guide to helpful shortcuts when you are on popular sites such as Gmail and Twitter to save you the effort of looking it up.
For the second feature, Mahalo is taking a page from Wikipedia’s book and adding “stubs”. This is an attempt to get more users involved with the process of building the search results so that the search engine can grow more quickly. If any stub receives more than three quality links, the Mahalo guides will then get involved, and help finish building the page out. And to combat spam, which could certainly become a problem with such an infrastructure, the company has a team of 50 employees monitoring all incoming links. Those found submitting spam can face suspension of their entire account, so think twice before you have a go at it.
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