Has Mahalo morphed into a game-cheat site?
The most popular pages on Jason Calacanis's Mahalo search engine concern videogames, videogame cheats, and D-list female celebrities. Not that there's anything wrong with that. We just suspect that Mahalo's venture-capital backers had ambitions higher than catering to immature male geeks obsessed with beating two things: Halo and off. This is the search engine that would compete with Google on quality, worth some $40 million in venture backing — a prettier version of GameFAQs.com? After the jump, Calacanis's greatest hits:
The current top ten pages at Mahalo:
- Halo 3 Skulls
- Aliette Vazquez
- How to Play Guitar for Newbies
- Guitar Hero III Cheats
- Guitar Hero 3 Song List
- Halo 3 Armor
- Vanessa Hudgens Pictures
- Zoey Zane
- Kane and Lynch Walkthrough
- That's six videogame pages, three pages featuring an attractive someone known only for being engaged to a race car driver, a nude Disney performer whose moment of fame peaked in September, and a deceased porn star. Oh, and one copycat how-to page that will allegedly teach you how to play guitar, which I hear is popular among teenage males when they aren't playing with videogames or themselves.
- Call of Duty 4 Enemy Intel