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There's competition for Google's Knol, and then there's Mahalo

Google Knol may or may not ever come to fruition, but Hitwise was kind enough to put together this chart of its potential rivals in the market for websites which answer your questions. And yes, Jason Calacanis's Mahalo is on there. You have to squint. It's way, way, way down there at the bottom. That little sliver of green. No wonder Calacanis is always commenting here with a link to the site. Think he'll do it again on this post?

12:20 PM on Tue Dec 18 2007
By Nicholas Carlson
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franky at 01:18 PM on 12/18/07
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Calacanis, self-promoting his services? You must be kidding!
magnusdopus at 02:01 PM on 12/18/07
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Mahalo surpasses Valleywag in traffic. They must be doing something right.

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WagCurious at 02:06 PM on 12/18/07
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I actually think this Mahalo page gets more traffic than Jason's

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c0d3w12 at 02:13 PM on 12/18/07
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No but I will :-)

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Rock tha Hizzee at 02:28 PM on 12/18/07
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@franky:

Linking to a site is tacky. Especially in cases where the link is off topic.

BTW, I wrote a post tangentially linked to Google Knol entitled "Google ain't shit."

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categorically at 02:53 PM on 12/18/07
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Jason, you had me at Mahalo....
HubPages at 11:12 PM on 12/18/07
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I'm Jason and I'd happily promote my site (okay, I'm Jason Menayan, and the site is HubPages).

Google's Knol is almost exactly like HubPages (encourages evergreen, topical content, shares revenue with author), so we've taken an interest in this development. But Google should know as well as anyone of the value of creating a platform and nurturing a community of writers. We've enjoyed over 100,000 registered users and we're closing in on 10 million pageviews per month, so the model does work if done right.