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by ehsanul 5593 days ago
This could be very painful for the likes of Mahalo. I remember Jason Calcanis mentioning, perhaps when he first noted a change of direction for Mahalo to high-quality content, that he'll make sure Mahalo is the number one Google result for "how to cook a turkey" and similar queries, where they've spent hundreds of dollars (maybe more) on quality content, notably videos. I just Googled "how to cook a turkey", without quotes, and Mahalo is nowhere to be seen! Not sure if tha t's a good thing or a bad thing, but the guys at Mahalo might just be freaking out right now.
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One of Mahalo's "pride and joy" results was "How to Play Guitar". They were #2 for a while, now they're 5-6.
Their "How to Play Guitar" page is actually pretty good. It should easily be 3 or 4, ahead of wikiHow, guitarreference, and about.com.
Mahalo is the top result here. Brazilian Google, but with language set as English. Removing the .br from the url takes Mahalo to the second place.

http://www.google.com.br/search?client=opera&rls=en&...