Mahalo and SEO

It’s pretty clear that the SEO guys don’t like Mahalo, the new “human search engine” from Jason Calacanis and his team of guides/developers. So much so that the site doesn’t even appear on the front page of Google, after an apparent 1 million page views within 48 hours. What this demonstrates is not SEO’s power (Mahalo will eventually appear as the top search result on Google, no doubt about it), but the pettiness of the people behind it. Mahalo.com deserves to be the first result, as it’s undoubtedly the most relevant result. By attempting, and temporarily succeeding, in breaking this logic, SEO people have revealed their true colour as complete sleazebags.