Is Mahalo becoming a gossip site?
Is this a good thing for the site? Do you think it's what Jason had in mind? Mahalo Answers doesn't seem to be evolving into a Wikipedia-like search destination, but more of a "what's the latest on what's happening now" sort of a site. While I have to admit I don't really care about most of the gossip stuff, I am noticing that many times I will see a news story on Mahalo *before* I see it in my newsfeeds, or on the actual news. That says something.
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But there for awhile, it looked like a techie site. It will probably go through cycles of being one thing or another.
Answer: Post some non-gossip questions!
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Why is this good for Mahalo Answers? It's extra good for Mahalo Answers because they can get higher search engine rankings, and more people will see the question and answer.
What I believe Mahalo Answers does a good job at, well at least some of the guides, and users is finding questions that have been asked on other sites, and asking them a little better, or differently. If an answer is asked on another site, and it is raised to the top of the search engine results, Mahalo believes it can do the same with the same exact question. Give it a try, enter a search and you will see that Mahalo Answers and Mahalo is landing on the first search results page, and sometimes in the first search result for some gossip or news categories. This is interesting to think about.
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I disagree with just how good you think it is, particularly for SEO. Current events and news questions are very bursty in their popularity, so while people might search for Chris Brown and Rhianna like crazy for a week, next week no one will care - so basically all those questions end up pretty useless/irrelevant. So instead of a "search engine destination" that turns into one of the foundations of the web, like Wikipedia, you end up with something more like TMZ where there's really nothing but a homepage with a steady stream of gossip and video clips. It may still be a good business model that makes money, I just didn't think that was the goal of the site (the gossip bit, not the making-money bit).
I think that for some folks, Mahalo Answers is something of a substitute blog. Instead of having your own space where you post the Bentley video and say "Here's my thoughts on what happened", you post a question to MAnswers and ask people "What do you think happened?" It is a very Twittery/social-networking way to think, and very community-oriented (i.e. you wouldn't think that way if you did not already feel like you belong to this community of people and are interested in their thoughts).