Mahalo Search Engine
May 31, 2007 by Des Walsh
Filed under Social Media
My interest in online search goes back to when I was managing a company and paying out more money than I thought was reasonable to have our state library service do online searches for the company.
And although they were no doubt doing the best they could, the great stacks of continuous sheets of printout seemed to contain more irrelevant than relevant information.
I wanted our researchers to have a more direct access. But it was a small company, without a huge research budget.
Then when I discovered AltaVista I thought several Christmases had come at once.
But lately, much as I admire what Yahoo! and Google especially have …read more




