The truth is that you pivoted Mahalo years ago to being a "How To" site. It wasn't a real search engine for very long at all. You saw what Demand Media was doin

The truth is that you pivoted Mahalo years ago to being a "How To" site. It wasn't a real search engine for very long at all. You saw what Demand Media was doing and did exactly the same thing. You denied it the whole time and then finally admitted it only recently when Panda broke the model for you. During those denials you would always point to a couple decent pages on Mahalo that were well done. Now you can point to a few videos that are well done. The problem is that your product was, and is, 95% mass produced crap and 5% good stuff. Look at the recently uploaded content on Mahalo's YouTube accounts. It's almost nothing but 1-5 minute clips of crap like "How to say 'Knife' in Spanish" "How to say 'Door' in Spanish" "How to say 'Chocolate' in Spanish" And the music/computer/gaming equivalents. This isn't the kind of product that people are going to come to rely on or love. They'll only find this stuff when they SEO-stumble across it. If YouTube decides to slap down video content farms you'll have the same problem all over again. If you look at some of the best SEO-driven sites like StackOverflow, TripAdvisor, or Yelp you'll notice something entirely different from Mahalo. Those sites have massive followings of people that actually love them. They are reliant on SEO, but in a very different way from Mahalo. People search Google for a programming question and scan the page for the stackoverflow.com link. They search Google for a restaurant and scan the page for the yelp.com link. Same with TripAdvisor. No one is searching Google or YouTube then scanning the page for the Mahalo videos. You have a head start on video content farming and Google seems to be pretty slow. Eventually the focus on quantity over quality will catch up to you and you'll suffer the same way you did with Panda. The product just isn't good enough to stand the test of time.