Mahalo registered hundreds of domain names that are actual search queries to improve their search ranking. For example, when Mahalo discovered that people searched for "Car Repair" enough times, Mahalo registered "CarRepair.com" and ended up the first result in google search from that point onward, because google regards the domains that match the query very highly.
Then they repeated this for hundreds of other queries.
This is considered bad form because these shell websites are all indistinguishable in terms of substance, and duplicate content already offered by the main site.
Then they repeated this for hundreds of other queries.
This is considered bad form because these shell websites are all indistinguishable in terms of substance, and duplicate content already offered by the main site.