Dear Jason,
Following your recommendation, I installed “Mahalo Follow”. I’m happy to report that I haven’t had so much fun since I played my first video game. Congratulations on discovering Mahalo’s true calling: entertainment!
When I first read that one of the Mahalo Follow’s features was its ability to detect relevant links to a web site viewed in the browser, I thought, “What fun!” So, I eagerly dashed to your blog to give Mahalo Follow’s “concurrent search” a test. (I saw that this morning you were requesting your readers Stumble something or other. Brilliant post, btw.)
Of course, Mahalo Follow was everything I expected. It figured out the the content on your today’s blog entries are is somehow associated with “Pink”, “Peaches”, “Scott Storch” and “Christina Aguilara”. Amazing!
I understand Danny Sullivan had the gall to criticize Mahalo Follow for “funky” results. Evidently, he thinks Mahalo is flawed because it returns results like “Elton John” when you search “Simpsons movie”.
You, Jason patiently explained that the keyword correlation is poor because Mahalo itself contains so few search results. That’s telling Danny!
Clearly, when a web page (like yours) contain words that have been included in Mahalo search, the results are great!
After all, the terrific results like one I just showed were based on keywords contained both in your blog post and Mahalo search, including: “mahalo, comments, email, covers, silicon, reporter, alley, berry, ombudsman, follow, pink, ping, any, feedback, dmozodp, editors, weekend, los, off, love”.
But does Mahalo do as well if we visit other people’s pages?
I was so inspired by the first result, I thought I’d check out articles listed in Mahalo press coverage . (BTW. I like the dolphins on that browser extension. I bet you picked dolphins because their silly tricks are so entertaining, right? )
I always enjoy Mashable, so I clicked the link to their review of your nifty dolphin encrusted plugin extension. I must say, their title, Mahalo Follow Offers Poor Comparative Search Tools, is rather harsh. The comments in that article were even harsher.
Imagine, someone named “Marc” said, “…but the execution is worthlessly uninspired and no more usable than a generic phpLinkDirectory site.”
So unjustified! How can something as entertaining as Mahalo be called unusable?
Who could fail to delight in the discovery that Mashable’s discussion of your nifty new video-game like browser extension matches your splendid article, “How to Book a Cheap Flight”?
Wow!
(That splendid match is based on these key terms: “about mahalo, search, follow, results, post, poor, offers, new, comparative, tools, trackbacks, related, entries, well, better, sites, next, feature, comment, browser.” )
So, congratulations Jason. Surfing the web is more enjoyable than ever now that I can view Mahalo search results in the sidebar. I’m predict great success now that you have decided to focus on what Mahalo does best: info-tainment!
Sincerely,
P.S. I also enjoyed the sidebar results when I visited Wikipedia’s page on Genesis. I was nearly overcome when I saw that Bartleby’s entry for the bible matches “Spiderman” and “Spider-man Films”, and Google’s search on “double crochet” matches “Indian National Cricket Team”.
