Yesterday, i was at Leweb3 conference in Paris, and one of the best moment i had was Mr Jason Calacanis / Mahalo presentation. I loved the way he defend the Internet with so much Passion and he's absolutely right, internet is being polluted and this is killing the community. Two years ago, i was about to create a search engine on that subject, something between del.icio.us / experts exchange - social network and google, but i had no time to move forward alone.

My initial concept was : nowadays, it's becoming difficult to find relevant contents on the internet, because many players started doing SEO on search engines, and companies started to monetize keywords on search results. That's, on my purpose, part of the internet pollution. I really thought that the solution was to build a different search engine based on both human and computers ranking algorithms. The aim of this project was to provide relevant contents first (i started to think about a mix between computer rankings and human votes while using linkedin answers, every question i have asked was answered very quickly and with a relevant answer all the time).

I thought the ratio between computers rankings algorithms and human rankings would be 40% / 60%, with some special features :

- Each rating made on the websites has to be reviewed by peers

- Each website in the index has to be found in the 2 first results pages of each major search engine (ask, google, yahoo, live)

- NO ADS, every user is able to make a donation each year to the community to stop that kind of lame business.

- The search engine is opened free, but if you wanna contribute, you had to be invited by a friend only. And your friend is responsible of your voice too (if you're doing bad things, he'll also pay (user level downgrading and rating downgrading))

Then, i stopped my project when somebody told me that Jason has done Mahalo and he answered many of my ideas with his ecosystem. Mahalo is great, go and test it as you like (http://www.mahalo.com/) this is part of the future of the free internet.

More than words now, just watch Jason conference there :

Jason Calacanis 2007 LeWeb3 Presentation - Part 1

Jason Calacanis 2007 LeWeb3 Presentation - Part 2

Jason Calacanis 2007 LeWeb3 Presentation - Q&A

Thank you Mister Calacanis.