Aloha Mahalo.com
Comments(2) ...and aloha Google (kind of).
"Mahalo is the world's first human-powered search engine" and I'm making the switch. Using Mahalo is easy, but switching from Google (is the link even necessary?) is not. It's not that Mahalo's search results are sub-par... they're actually better... when there is a hand-written result page. Even when there isn't a Mahalo authored result page, the site returns Google's results. It's really a win-win for the user. The hard part, is breaking the habit of typing "www.google.com" when I need to find something. Oh... and when I do remember to go straight to the Mahalo home page... I kind of miss the simplicity of classic Google.
To combat my Google habit, I've created a nice little, simple, ugly, but functional Greasemonkey script called google2mahalo. The script forwards search requests from Google.com on to Mahalo to ensure a Google habit doesn't prevent getting the best search results available.
Go on... TRY IT... there's nothing to lose...