Dear Jason Calacanis ,
I read Allen Stern’s criticism of Mahalo, your new “search engine” that is going to put Google out of business. Evidently, he thinks the fact Mahalo couldn’t catch the news that Skype went down yesterday is a flaw.
Evidently, you, Jason, think Skype isn’t big news.
Bless your heart, Jason, but Skype is big news. Or at least, it was big news to the many who searched for information yesterday. They couldn’t find that information about the outage on Mahalo.
Luckily, they could find the news they sought on Google and Technorati.
Finding the information you want: that’s what people use search engines for. If Mahalo doesn’t find them, Mahalo is irrelevant.
P.S. I’m glad to see you thought to add the Skype stub after Allen out Mahalo’s lapse.
