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Mahalo Answers takes on Yahoo! Answers with money
Mahalo launched about a year and a half ago as a sort of human-powered search engine. Now the site has curated search results for around 100,000 search terms. They're sort of like Google search results, except human beings have helped select the items they think you'd be most interested to highlight.
And today the company launched Mahalo Answers, which fills several functions. First, it allows anyone at all to post a question and get answers from Mahalo employees or anyone else who feels the urge to post an answer. Mahalo may incorporate those answers into its general search results, which helps flesh out the content on the main Mahalo.com page. But there's another way Mahalo, and you, can make money using Mahalo answers.
When you're asking a question you can offer a "tip" for the best answers. Tips are paid in Mahalo Dollars, which is another way of saying US dollars. But Mahalo takes a cut of 25% when you withdraw any money in your account. So if you've made $100 by providing top notch answers to questions, you can either ask 10 questions and provide $10 tips yourself or you can withdraw $75.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
