{"id":1928,"date":"2007-11-14T22:48:52","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T03:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/11\/14\/andrew-baron-has-a-hate-on-for-mahalo\/"},"modified":"2007-11-14T22:48:52","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T03:48:52","slug":"andrew-baron-has-a-hate-on-for-mahalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/11\/14\/andrew-baron-has-a-hate-on-for-mahalo\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Baron has a hate-on for Mahalo"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have to say I’m not a huge fan of Mahalo.com, the “people-powered” search engine from Jason Calacanis, but then I’m not really the target market (as Jason has pointed out in comments here before). And I can see how it might be useful to some people, if they’re looking for just one or two results. But as skeptical as I am, I look like Jason’s biggest supporter compared to Andrew Baron of Rocketboom, who wrote a recent post<\/a> entitled “Why Mahalo is Fundamentally Flawed.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

I’m not sure what happened between Jason and Andrew, although I know that Jason offered Amanda Congdon a job after her acrimonious departure as the host<\/a> of Rocketboom, and he also made some fun of Rockeboom (in what I thought was a kind-hearted way) in a recent Mahalo video. But still — Andrew doesn’t just criticize Mahalo for a few flaws in his post. He effectively accuses Jason of perpetrating a gigantic con, in which he pretends to set up a site to help people find search results, but in reality just wants to get them to click on his ads.<\/p>\n

It’s interesting to read the comments on Andrew’s post as well: Jason shows up and gamely tries to respond to the criticisms, and also disproves Andrew’s claim<\/a> that there are no positive reviews of Mahalo other than Jason’s (which Andrew wriggles out of by saying they aren’t credible<\/a>). Then, after a comment from Duncan Riley of TechCrunch, the Rocketboom founder wonders whether Duncan’s comment came after a “nudge for a voucher,” whatever that means. It’s bizarre.<\/p>\n

Just for the record, I have nothing against Andrew — he was a panelist at the original mesh conference last year, and we were happy to have him — and I think he was a pioneer with Rocketboom. But his vendetta against Jason seems more than a little over the top. <\/p>\n

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I have to say I’m not a huge fan of Mahalo.com, the “people-powered” search engine from Jason Calacanis, but then I’m not really the target market (as Jason has pointed out in comments here before). And I can see how it might be useful to some people, if they’re looking for just one or two … <\/p>\n

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