well after googling mahalo and wait did i say googling anyway no not unless they give better results first off. I dont think so although with hard work anything is possible.
Mahalo's pretty much relying heavily on Google at this point of time..somewhere along the wikipedia path.
Mahalo is doing something in between what yahoo did before search engines were algorithm based and What wikipedia has done in topics.. Only mahalo is doing at a much smaller scale... and Mahalo instead of being an independent seach, will depend on Google SERP for traffic, whatever Mahalo might claim... It will surely be a good content site, but BEAT Google here is a nice analysis of Mahalo http://www.skrenta.com/2007/08/some_thoughts_on_mahalo.html