Mahalo, the human powered search engine, has some new social features that could really help get you better and more relevant search results. Mahalo Social, obviously named for its social networking abilities, allows users on Mahalo to create profiles, make friends, yada, yada, yada. Really, it’s not as boring as it sounds. First of all, now you can easily submit links to sites that you think are relevant in search results. The links are reviewed by Mahalo managers and if you submit a bad link, everyone will know. They’ll know because your Mahalo Social profile contains a ranking of links recommended, links accepted, and banned links. The more links that are accepted, the higher your ranking will be. If you submit links that end up banned, then your ranking will go down. All of your recommended links are in your profile as well as any of your friends links. If you add someone as a friend and they add you as well, then your links will show up on their profile page. You can also add links to profiles from other social networking sites you belong to like MySpace, YouTube, or Facebook. On the result pages, there’s now an option to start a discussion about the page itself. You’ll also be given credit on the result page, should your link be accepted. For example, there’s a page for “how to use Mahalo Social“. If someone were to add a link to this demo then their profile would appear on the page. 
I think these are all great additions to Mahalo. I only have one question: Where is the Mahalo page for “screencast”? Alright, alright, here’s my screencast tour of Mahalo Social:
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