There's competition for Google's Knol, and then there's Mahalo

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Nicholas Carlson

12/18/07 03:20PM

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Google Knol may or may not ever come to fruition, but Hitwise was kind enough to put together this chart of its potential rivals in the market for websites which answer your questions. And yes, Jason Calacanis's Mahalo is on there. You have to squint. It's way, way, way down there at the bottom. That little sliver of green. No wonder Calacanis is always commenting here with a link to the site. Think he'll do it again on this post?

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Rock tha Hizzee Nicholas Carlson 12/18/07 05:28PM

@franky:

Linking to a site is tacky. Especially in cases where the link is off topic.

BTW, I wrote a post tangentially linked to Google Knol entitled "Google ain't shit."

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HubPages Nicholas Carlson 12/19/07 02:12AM

I'm Jason and I'd happily promote my site (okay, I'm Jason Menayan, and the site is HubPages).

Google's Knol is almost exactly like HubPages (encourages evergreen, topical content, shares revenue with author), so we've taken an interest in this development. But Google should know as well as anyone of the value of creating a platform and nurturing a community of writers. We've enjoyed over 100,000 registered users and we're closing in on 10 million pageviews per month, so the model does work if done right.

magnusdopus Nicholas Carlson 12/18/07 05:01PM

Mahalo surpasses Valleywag in traffic. They must be doing something right.

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c0d3w12 Nicholas Carlson 12/18/07 05:13PM

No but I will :-)

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