Mahalo FAQ

What is Mahalo?

• Mahalo is a human-powered search engine that creates organized, comprehensive, and spam free search results for the most popular search terms. Our search results only include great links.

What does Mahalo mean?

• Mahalo is Hawaiian for Thank you.

Why use Mahalo?

Save time

• We take the time to find and organize the best links for search terms, so you don't have to. With traditional search engines you need to figure out the right search term and find relevant results within an unorganized list that often contains irrelevant results, spam, and some mediocre sites. With Mahalo, you can enter a simple search term and instantly get an organized page of results that only includes great links.
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• Our results contain everything you need to know about a topic and are organized into sections to help you quickly find what you need. For example, our travel pages for cities contain sections on basics (weather, current events, maps, history), flights, vacation packages, transportation, activities, attractions, events, tours, hotels, restaurants, shopping, nightlife, and local blogs.

Discover great new links

• Many of the great links we find are very hard to find on Google. People who use Mahalo often find great links that they'd never discovered with Google, despite many searches. Our comprehensive result pages also offer great related links that you may not have thought to look for.

Spend time enjoying great content instead of looking for it

• People spend a lot of time on traditional search engines just looking for great content. Because every Mahalo link is great, you can spend your time enjoying great new content instead of looking for it.

Say goodbye to spam, mediocre content, and deceptive sites

• Mahalo never links to spam, mediocre content, or deceptive sites. It's that simple.

We focus on the areas where traditional search engines struggle

• Search results for certain categories, such as products, travel, cars, and health, are cluttered with people selling things, making it difficult to find great information on those topics. We focus on those topics and provide organized results that offer great links for every type of info you could need.

What if Mahalo hasn't written a page for my search term?

• If we haven't written a page for a search term, we return a few related Mahalo pages and Google results alongside tabbed results from other search engines and online services. If you'd like us to write a page for a specific search term that we're missing, you can actually help us build the page by logging in or signing up for a Mahalo account and recommending links to that page. Sign up for a Mahalo account here.

What's the difference between a friend and a fan on my user profile page?

• A Friend is someone whom you have added as your friend and who has also added you as their friend.
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• A Fan is someone who has added you as a friend, but whom you have not yet befriended.

How do I recommend links to Mahalo?

• You can recommend high-quality links to any search term on Mahalo, either by using Mahalo Follow or by clicking on the green plus sign under the User Recommended Links section. Note: you must have a Mahalo account to recommend links. Sign up for a Mahalo account here.

Why have the links I've recommended not been accepted?

• All user submitted links to Mahalo are examined by Mahalo's Guides to make sure that they meet our requirements for inclusion on the page. If the link you submitted is a great one, we'll add it to the main part of the page and you'll receive notification that it's been added and you'll show up as a contributor to that page. If we're not convinced that your link is absolutely one of the best links out there for the search term to which it was submitted, we'll leave it in the User Recommended Links section to see if other users also recommend it. If the link qualifies as spam or violates any of our Terms of Service, we will remove it from the page. You can see whether your links have been accepted or rejected from your profile page.
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• For more information about what links Mahalo will / will not include in our search results, please see What sites will I find / not find on Mahalo?

What is Mahalo Follow?

• Mahalo Follow is a toolbar for both Firefox and Internet Explorer that suggests Mahalo pages in a sidebar that are related to pages you're viewing in your browser. You can also use Mahalo Follow to submit links to Mahalo searches, and if you're using Mahalo Follow in Firefox, you can simultaneously submit links to Mahalo, your Twitter, and Del.icio.us accounts.

What is Mahalo Social?

• Mahalo Social adds a variety of community-oriented features to the Mahalo curated search system. In addition to faster and more organized ways to submit links, it allows Mahalo users to make friends and share links with one another.

Does Mahalo have an editorial process, and, if so, what is it?

• Yes. Mahalo has an editorial process to ensure that each search result is reviewed multiple times. Search results built in the Mahalo Greenhouse by our Part Time Guides are quality controlled by both our Mahalo Mentors and our Full Time Guides before being added to Mahalo. Search results built internally by our full time staff are checked by other Full Time Guides and our editors. We also have a place on every page where you, the public, can report problems or errors with our pages. Our Guides then check these errors and correct them. Additionally, we have a dead link checker which helps us remove links that are no longer functioning and a full time team watching the news to make sure that every hot search term or news item is updated quickly.

What if I love Mahalo results but I'm not ready to switch to Mahalo for all searches?

• We created a browser extension that allows you to continue to use your current search engine and view Mahalo results side-by-side, whenever we have a page for your search, without you doing any extra work. It's simple to install and free. You can download and install Mahalo Follow from here and see what others are saying about Mahalo Follow here.

Can I get involved with or contribute to Mahalo?

• Absolutely. Every Mahalo search result has a form to recommend a link for the page and a message board where you can discuss the page. We also have a program, called the Mahalo Greenhouse, where anyone can write search result pages and get paid for each page that we accept to Mahalo. Learn more about the Mahalo Greenhouse.

Why do short searches work better on Mahalo?

• Mahalo search results are organized into sections and comprehensive. For example, each product page includes the following sections: buying guides and information, retailers, comparison shopping, coupons and deals, etc. As a result, if you're looking for hot tub information and reviews, you can simply enter "hot tub" and you'll get all the links you were looking for and a bunch of helpful related links.

What is the press saying about Mahalo?

• See the Mahalo Press Coverage Page

What are all these symbols next to the links?

• We have three types of symbols: Warnings  , Guide's Choice  , and What is? icons. Warnings warn you about a link that we thought necessary to include, but which may be unnecessarily ad-heavy, have a pop-up, require a free account, or suffer from some other problem that makes the link not quite as nice as we'd all like it to be. Some warnings will be more informational, letting you know, for example, if a link leads to a site that is partially in another language. A full list of our warnings can be found on our Mahalo Warnings page. If you hover over the warning symbol with your cursor, a text explanation of the warning will appear. Example:
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• The Guide's Choice symbol   is a shaka sign, a Hawaiian symbol commonly used as a greeting. On Mahalo, it means that one of our Guides really likes the link that the shaka follows. If you hover over the Guide's Choice symbol with your cursor, the name of the Guide who recommends the link will appear next to a brief explanation of why the link is recommended. Example:  
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• We also have our What is? icon. We place this icon next to sources with which you may not be familiar. These icons link to a What is ... ? page that provides a brief description of the site and why we use it here at Mahalo. Example: Technorati

What are (Sponsored) or (Partner) links?

• When a visitor clicks on a link marked as (Sponsored) or (Partner), Mahalo receives a commission if the visitor goes on to complete a purchase at the website.

I noticed on the Guide profile pages that many of the results are marked as 60%, 75%, or 90% complete? Why aren't any of them 100% complete?

• On each search result page, we continually add and prune links as we strive to include 100% of the best links available. We mark each page a % complete to indicate how close we think it is to our ideal. We encourage every one who uses the site to help us reach our ideal by recommending links, reporting problems, and participating in our message boards.

What sites will I find / not find on Mahalo?

1. We will not link to:
   1. ... spam sites.
   2. ... non-spam sites that have deceptive, or overbearing, advertising. For example, we will not link to splogs - spam blogs that have nothing but ads above the fold, forcing you to scroll down to get to the content, which might be scraped from another site. This includes sites that are largely advertorial.
   3. ... any sites that give the appearance of participating in phishing or any other type of malicious activity ("phishing" being the fraudulent acquisition of sensitive personal information by masquerading as a trustworthy entity).
   4. ... sites that simply regurgitate information from other sites with or without giving credit where credit is due. For example, if you have a blog that you use to simply aggregate your favorite posts about gadgets from other, more notable gadget blogs (such as Engadget or Gizmodo)—without adding substantial value and information via your blog—then we will always link directly to the source of the information rather than to your blog.
   5. ... sites which scrape or re-purpose other people's content without permission. Note: We are not able to police every site we link to, so we will make mistakes. If we're linking to a site which you feel is misappropriating your content please let us know by clicking the "Report" link on the search result page in question.
   6. ... sites of unknown origin (i.e. we cannot establish who operates the site).
   7. ... sites which have adult content or hate speech.
2. We will link to:
   1. ... sites that are considered authorities in their field (i.e. Edmunds for autos, Engadget for consumer electronics, and the New York Times for news).
   2. ... sites which create original, high-quality content on a consistent basis.
   3. ... sites that have been operating for over one year. Sites under a year will be considered, but most will be placed in a "member-submitted" section at the bottom of the page until they hit the one-year mark.
   4. ... sites that have clean layout, design, and a modest amount of advertising.

What happens to sites that you block or remove from your pages for copyright infringement?

• Just as we create a list of trusted sources that we use to build our search results, we also have a list of sites that we will not link to because they infringe on the copyright of others. Any site removed from Mahalo for infringing is banned from Mahalo as a whole and added to this list.

How do I get my site listed on Mahalo?

• See Mahalo's Guide for Publishers

I recommended a site and you didn't add it to your search result pages. What gives?

• There could be numerous reasons for this. Perhaps your site is too new and hasn't really established itself online. Perhaps your ad placement was too over the top, and your site was determined to provide good content, but at the expense of a good browsing experience. Perhaps your site, being a good site about a search result, was simply beat out by all the best sites about that same search result. See our list describing sites you will and will not find on Mahalo for more information.

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개같은 서울 시민들아~

꼴랑 아파트 한채에 영혼을 저당잡힌 저렴한 인생들아,

콘크리트 4각형 협소한 공간이 그리 좋았더냐

아파트 가격만 보장 한다면 사기를 처도 용서가 되고

사람을 죽여도 묵인되고 거짓말을 해도 박수를 처주는

한심한 종자들아~

부모님이 미역국 먹어 힘있게 세상의 광명을 보여 주었건만

공들여 키워 교육시켜 세상에 당당히 내 보냈건만

인생의 최대 목적과 존재의 근원이 고작 아파트 한채란 말인가?

한나라당이 이겨서 이리 비웃는 것은 아니다, 만일 정치적인 공약이나

이슈 대결로 이런 결과가 나왔다면 그건 기자 개새끼들이

짓는대로 민의의 결과니까…

근데 양심에 손을 대고 생각해 봐라…

정말 양심에 따라 투표했냐? 아니면 아파트 값 바라보고 투표했냐?

특히 요즘 아파트 값 폭등하는 강북에 사는 쫌팽이들….. 

아파트 값좀 오르니 왠지 어깨가 들석이고 우쭐해 디디?

그래서 파란색 정당에다 묻지마 투표한 거니?

괜시리 어쩌구 저쩌구 심판 하며 개젓지랄 떨지말구 걍 아파트 가격좀 높여

목돈좀 만져볼려구 투표했다고 솔직하게 고백해라..

특히 20대 씨벌넘들아~

너 같은 종자들에게 민주주의 좀 보여줄려구 예전에 명동성당에서 국가내란죄

협박 받으며 악다구니썼던, 내 혓바닥을 뽑아 버리고 싶다.

한나라등을 지지해도 괜찮고 박근혜에 열광해도 상관없다, 단지 조국과 민족을

사랑하는 펄펄 끓는 애국심에 보다 진실해져라.

게임만 하지말구 그저 먹구 싸는데만 열중하지 말란 말이다…

내가 화가 나는 건 한나라등이 압승해서두 아니고 민주당이 패배해서두 아니다,

지난 반세기의 민주주의 투쟁의 피와 땀이 고작 아파트 한채보다 가치가 없단 말

인가? 그게 정말 화가 난다.

부채도사 출동

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Whether your style is Beckham-boudoir or Conran-classic, we’re all about bringing you everything you need to make your home the best it can be. We know what it’s like. We’ve trawled the High Street searching for the perfect sofa, tried to visualise statement walls from a one inch paint swatch, and we’ve wondered; WHY isn’t there a place online where I can find everything I need, and try it before I buy it? So we’ve created one, and we hope you like it.

mydeco brings together the widest possible range of products from high street stores to niche retailers, thousands of inspiring looks to fit your budget, expert designers on hand for advice, and simple 3D tools to help you plan your room before you even open a tin of paint. You can also join our community to share ideas, swap decorating tips and show off your designs. It's the total home package.

• Get inspired
• Find the perfect product
• Try our 3D room planning tools

What we’re not

We are not a retailer; we aren’t interested in selling you particular products or brands, so you’ll always find the widest possible range of products at mydeco.

Keep in touch

Give us your email address and we’ll keep you updated on all the latest news, deals and furniture fabulousness from mydeco. We hate spam, and we promise not to send you any (we also make it easy to unsubscribe at any time).

We’ve got lots more great ideas up our sleeves, so we hope you’ll stay tuned.

Stuff you might need to know

How we think

mydeco {it's leaping, vaulting, nothing's impossible ambition}

Some people might stop at building not one but three advanced room planning tools, or they might throw in a few articles and then have a cup of tea. At mydeco, we believe home is more than where your heart is; it’s where your soul, personality and aspirations come together. And we’d be doing you a disservice if we strived for anything less than a daring, outrageously ambitious home design revolution.

Get inspiration from 1,000 Buy-The-Look room ideas.

mydeco {it's exceptional, professional and passionately progressive}

We tell it how it is. Straight up. Whether it’s what we think of your new living room wallpaper, or how we work with our retailer friends, we promise to be honest and up-front at all times. What you see is what you get – which is why we built room planning tools that show you exactly how your finished design will look with the click of a mouse. If there’s a problem, we’ll do our best to make it right.

Try our 3D room planning tools.

mydeco {it's collaborative, responsive and totally committed}

We’re about making home design easier, quicker and more enjoyable - and we won’t rest until mydeco.com meets your every furniture wish. Most of our best ideas don’t come from clever thinky-tanks but from our community of illustrious, ambitious and adventurous members. We love to hear what you think, please send us your thoughts here.

Who we are

mydeco was founded in February 2007 by Brent Hoberman. Brent co-founded lastminute.com with Martha Lane Fox in 1998. He was CEO from inception, and the company raised £120 million in an IPO 18 months after the site launched. Seven years later, the ground breaking travel and leisure website had acquired 14 businesses and was sold for $1.1 billion. Brent is Executive Chairman of mydeco, non-executive Chairman of WAYN (a travel and leisure social network with over 9 million members), a non-executive board director of Guardian Media Group and also acts as Governor of University of the Arts College, London. Brent is also an angel investor and has invested in seed rounds in amongst others: moveme.com, viagogo, t5m, imagini.net, academia.eu.

mydeco is now 35 people strong, and we live in Victoria, London. We’ve got a passionate and talented founding team on board, with experience ranging from Community-building and 3D Design to Interior Designers and Architects. Here are a few more people you might like to meet:

David Kelly, Chief Executive Officer

David was previously Vice President of European Business Operations at eBay Inc, where he lead a cross-functional team of over 2,000 people. Prior to joining eBay, David was Chief Operating Officer at lastminute.com where he worked closely with Brent and Martha, and Operations Director at Amazon.co.uk. David is excited to be launching a start-up and now understands the value of the colour wheel.

Paul Chudleigh, Chief Technology Officer

Paul is responsible for the whizzy technology that makes mydeco special. Paul held a variety of technical positions at lastminute.com, including Head of Software Development and Head of Technical Architecture. Paul never thought his Computer Science degree would be applied to furniture and accessories.

Lisa Helmanis, Head of Editorial

Lisa has a wealth of experience in lifestyle and design publications, most recently as Editor of the Sunday Times ‘insideout’ magazine. Prior to this, Lisa wrote for Sunday Times Style, GQ, RIBA Interiors, Vogue Entertaining and Elle Decoration Sweden amongst others. Lisa has also held Lifestyle Editor positions with SHE, Living Etc and Brides. Lisa is so in-the-know it’s frightening, and she’s the one we rely on to tell us if it’s hot or not.

Pia Munden, Interior Designer

Pia is an interior design expert and prior to joining mydeco worked as Head of Studio for renowned Llewelyn-Bowen Ltd products. In this capacity Pia was Director of Design for Llewelyn-Bowen Associates (BIDA), as well as being Head Designer for the product side of the business. She has overseen design work for major blue chip companies such as Dartington Crystal and Royal Worcester, as well as more unusual projects such as “Hotel room of the future” for Intercontinental Hotels. We all want our homes to look like Pia’s.

Investors in mydeco

We’re very proud to have attracted a visionary group of investors, led by Tom Teichman of SPARK Ventures. In addition to Teichman, other investors include Lord Rothschild family interests, Marc Worth, founder of Worth Global Style Network, Edward Atkin, founder of Canon Avent and Yoo Design Ltd, the property development company lead by John Hitchcox and Philippe Starck.

Contact Us

Talented and keen to join us? Email jobs@mydeco.com with your CV and a description of what you could do for us.

Looking to reach our style-savvy, interiors obsessed audience? Contact us at advertise@mydeco.com

If you are a retailer looking to work with us please email supply@mydeco.com

Want to boast about some new products or design and be featured in The Magazine? Email editors@mydeco.com

Got an interesting business and think you'd make a great partner then email partners@mydeco.com

Finally any press queries email press@mydeco.com

Can we help?

If you have any questions about our range of retailers, products, tools or simply how to decorate your room, take a look at the oracle that is mydeco Q&A.

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About Squidoo

A LITTLE ABOUT SQUIDOO:

Squidoo's goal as a platform is to bring the power of recommendation to search. Squidoo's goal as a co-op is to pay as much money as we can to our lensmasters and to charity. And Squidoo's goal as a community is to have fun along the way, and meet new ideas and the people behind them.

Read more about Squidoo at The SquidLens.

THE CAST OF CHARACTERS:

Squidoo was started by the Original Squid, Seth Godin. Nearly ten years ago, Seth founded Yoyodyne, which originated the idea of permission marketing online. After Yoyodyne was acquired by Yahoo, he served as VP Direct Marketing for Yahoo for about a year. In 2000, Godin focused full-time on his career as an acclaimed public speaker, an author and a blogger. Seven of Seth's books have been bestsellers somewhere around the world, and his blog has been picked as the best business blog by several leading publications. Seth's head is the most recognizable author icon in business. Yes, his head.

Editor-in-Chief: Megan Casey. Before joining the founding Squidoo team Megan spent 6 years in book publishing, most recently at the Portfolio business books imprint of Penguin Group, USA. There she developed pioneering marketing and technology books from the likes of John Battelle, Seth Godin, Bo Burlingham, Rod Beckstrom and Ori Braufman, and Dave Balter -- among countless others. Megan was universally regarded as the most effective (and, irrelevantly, the youngest) editor working in the popular business book genre. She is also a user experience and marketing consultant for several author websites, and once upon a time ran her own author website development company. Megan's favorite part about Squidoo is their Org 2.0 movement, working with a tiny team of 4, the totally arcane topics that show up on lenses, and the fact that there are actually dozens of incredible lenses on zombies.

Corey Brown is our Vice President and Managing Director. He is a 12 year internet veteran and was the founder of Solutions Factory, a cutting-edge web strategy, content, design and development firm. He has advised numerous companies on a wide range of web-based initiatives, including Raytheon Corporation, Columbia Energy Group and Time Warner Cable. He is an open source and web standards fanatic. He's also a 'double cappuccino with soy' fanatic, and is at work getting the 16oz named after himself.

Chief Engineer: Gil Hildebrand, Jr. Prior to joining Squidoo, Gil served as an independent technology consultant to businesses nationwide. As a specialist in business process automation, Gil has successfully designed and implemented software systems that have boosted accuracy and dramatically lowered overhead for hospitals, insurance carriers, and pre-employment screening agencies. Working with Sprint and Cingular, he also designed a wireless communications infrastructure for tugboats. Gil is responsible for the majority of the AJAX infrastructure and module development at Squidoo. Gil is a New Orleans/Katrina transplant; we're proud to have him.

OTHER KEY MEMBERS AND SMARTIES ON THE SQUIDOO TEAM ARE:

Board members: Tom Cohen and Lisa Gansky. Over the last 20 years, Tom has advised a variety of companies in the traditional and new media worlds on financial and strategic matters. His clients have included Time Life, Time Inc., The New York Times, "NBC", Martha Stewart Living and Rolling Stone magazine. Tom has also worked with Internet companies such as Yoyodyne, E-Exchange, and Medcast. He has served as a Special Venture Partner with Flatiron Partners , a leading internet focused venture capital fund. Prior to his work in the Internet, Tom spent four years acting as Chief Executive Officer of the New York based brokerage firm of Herzfeld and Stern. Lisa is a marketect & entrepreneur with a strong interest in building teams & breaking the edges of formerly happy business models. Most recently, she was co-founder and CEO of Ofoto , and GM of Eastman Kodak's Digital Imaging Services division. In addition to her roles at Ofoto and Kodak, she serves on the boards of The Jane Goodall Institute and Dos Margaritas. In the nineties Lisa was CEO of Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial web site and portal. When GNN was acquired by America Online in 1995, she continued on as VP of Internet properties and services, overseeing Webcrawler, GNN, AOL online advertising and e-commerce.

Designer and Advisor Red Maxwell is Founder and President of onramp Branding, an unconventionally audacious design and marketing boutique based in North Carolina. A three time winner of the London International Advertising Awards, he has developed major brand introductions for Danone Foods, Foster's Brewing Company and Planters LifeSavers. Red is also a pioneer of internet marketing and has launched online sites and promotions for Hanes, Sara Lee, Accenture and Yahoo! Prior to the glamorous world of geek marketing, Red started the in-house advertising design and photography departments at Polo Ralph Lauren.

Contributing Designer and former Ninjtern, Sahadeva Hammari, was responsible for some of our coolest badges, art, and some critical redesigns.

Advisor Joi Ito. Joi is Vice President of International Business and Mobile Devices for Technorati, Chairman of Six Apart Japan, also currently a member of the board of Creative Commons, Socialtext, ICANN and the Mozilla Foundation.

Our logo, and much of our crucial early design, is the work of Aaron Sagray. Aaron is Creative Director and owner of Feverish, a strategic design and marketing firm that helps small and medium businesses develop uniquely practical tools to successfully sell their products and services.

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