Powered by the People…

by Greg Tirico

crowd.jpgIn a previous post on this blog I argued that Google and Yahoo are ultimately pursuing very different strategies for organizing information on the web. Google is pursuing an algorithmic approach and Yahoo seems focused on human-powered strategies.

Today we have an article from Wired that talks about using people to search, sort and segment information found on the internet. The best real-world example that comes to mind is Mahalo (another start-up courtesy of Jason Calacanis).

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