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"Trust in the Internet is plummeting." Those are the words of Jason Calacanis, the CEO and Founder of Mahalo, during the WebProNews interview at SES New York. Calacanis and Mike McDonald discuss users' experience on the Web in which Calacanis refers to it as a "frustrating experience for people." He goes on to say these trends led him to start Mahalo. Check out the full interview with Jason Calacanis including his somewhat new opinion of SEO and his race to be the number one Twitter user. Keep watching WebProNews for more coverage of SES New York 2008. Tags: Jason Calacanis, Mahalo, Mike McDonald, Search, SEO, SES, SES New York 2008, Twitter, User Experience

Back in February of this year, Pronet Advertising’s Neil Patel offered an open challenge to Sequoia Capital’s Jason Calacanis pertaining to SEO. The challenge was initiated after Jason Calacanis implied that SEO was bad. Patel believed he could he could take Calacanis’s blog and increase the search traffic by a minimum of 10-20 percent, 30 [...] Tags: Jason Calacanis, Neil Patel, SEO, SES, weblogs

Nearly a month after Neil Patel challenged SEO criticisms made by Jason Calacanis, results are favorable for Patel, whose goal was to increase search traffic for Calacanis. Patel said he could boost search-driven traffic on the site by a minimum of 10 percent within 30 days of making the changes to the site. [...] Tags: Andrea Diebold, Jason Calacanis, Neil Patel, SEO, weblogs

SEO critic Jason Calacanis may have to backtrack from his old opinions. After he accepted a challenge from Neil Patel over optimizing the Calacanis web site to receive more search engine traffic, Patel’s first efforts have yielded a twenty-one percent increase. Patel said on his blog that only about ten percent of the changes he [...] Tags: Andy Beal, Calacanis, ComputerWorld, e-Tech, Google, Jason Calacanis, Kathy Sierra, Neil Patel, Rich Skrenta, Robert Scoble, Topix