That article is actually old (Feb 09), from long before Mahalo 2.0 was launched. Regardless, I don't think Mahalo did anything wrong, I've been with Mahalo long before Feb 09 and I don't remember this "controversy" ever coming up. "Funneling link scheme"?? looks more like Mahalo employees, linking to Mahalo pages they built, from their personal blogs.

As far as I know Jason Calacanis (Mahalo Founder) is good friends with Google, If Google considered Mahalo spam, why does most of our search traffic come from Google? Why would Mahalo use Google ads exclusively? We are partners - if anything, with Google?

Here is with Google VP Marissa Mayer with Jason at a previous Techcrunch 50, which is one of Mahalo founders Jason Calacanis many projects
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mager/2840375894/

In fact Marissa will be back at this years conference. Why would she be invited if Google didn't like Mahalo, Google loves Mahalo, they provide us with search results, image results, video results, product results and yes, 90% of our advertisements are operated from Google.

Personally, I don't know who Aaron Wall is or what "seobook.com" is or why they would say Mahalo violates Google? As far as I know, Mahalo is A-OK in the Google books.

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