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Goodsearch.com

Started by Crazyfool Sep 20, 2006 at 6:22 PM 8 replies 1.5k views

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Sep 20, 2006 at 6:22 PM

Hi, sorry if this has been posted but I'd like to tell you about it. Goodsearch.com is a search engine powered by yahoo, where each search done is a penny towards a charity of your choice. I think it is a great system, and if you guys are willing to use it, and do not know of a charity to support, may I suggest Project Sister Sexual Assault Crisis located in Claremont, CA. My mother volunteers her time for it, and it is a Rape Victim's Advocate where volunteers are trained to help alleviate the pain that goes with being a victim of sexual assault. It is a non-profit organization. So the next time you guys need to do a search, please do it with Goodsearch.com Also, please dont spam random letters or nonsense to boost donations as it will result in a deletion of the charity. Thanks so much!

Run_The_Shadows

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Run_The_Shadows

Sep 20, 2006 at 11:21 PM

Too bad Yahoo Search isn't very good.

Telamon

Sep 21, 2006 at 3:36 AM

Dude you can get a Russian botnet on IRC for $.10 a machine. If you really want to do some good in this world, you should get a couple million of them and do a hundred searches on each box.

Conner McCloud

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Conner McCloud

Sep 21, 2006 at 6:43 AM

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Original post by Telamon
Dude you can get a Russian botnet on IRC for $.10 a machine. If you really want to do some good in this world, you should get a couple million of them and do a hundred searches on each box.

And then get your charity disabled, and possibly the whole project shut down when they realize there are just too many asses taking advantage of the situation.

CM

reana1

Sep 21, 2006 at 7:07 AM

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Original post by Run_The_Shadows
Too bad Yahoo Search isn't very good.

I've had no problems with Yahoo before. I've even compared with Google and tended to prefer Yahoo results. The only thing I don't like is their new "improved" absurdly busy home page.

Anon Mike

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Anon Mike

Sep 21, 2006 at 11:45 AM

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Original post by reana1
The only thing I don't like is their new "improved" absurdly busy home page

That's actually the main reason I switched to Google way back when. Going anywhere near Yahoo makes me think I've descended to the 9th circle of marketing hell. Google is clean and uncluttered and doesn't ram the ads and tie-ins down my throat with a plunger.

Telamon

Sep 21, 2006 at 12:28 PM

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Original post by Conner McCloud
Quote:
Original post by Telamon
Dude you can get a Russian botnet on IRC for $.10 a machine. If you really want to do some good in this world, you should get a couple million of them and do a hundred searches on each box.

And then get your charity disabled, and possibly the whole project shut down when they realize there are just too many asses taking advantage of the situation.

CM

No you are not thinking big enough, that is your problem. After you run the first hundred searches and get the first charity disabled, you randomly choose a new one. Then you rotate through all of them. To keep the goodsearch people happy you also program the machines to randomly click on ads.

This would fly.

reana1

Sep 22, 2006 at 12:16 PM

Well, not sure what the deal is with the goodsearch thing. Seemed to work fine yesterday, but now I see it not returning many results. So I ran it with regular Yahoo and got different results (about 100 times more results). So not sure what it's running, but it's not the normal yahoo searches. :(

Rob Loach

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Rob Loach

Sep 22, 2006 at 12:35 PM

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From the GoodSearch FAQ page
Fifty percent of the revenue generated from advertisers is shared with the charity, school or nonprofit organization of your choosing.

Only fifty percent? Where does the rest of the money go?..... Should there be a charity setup for GameDev?

jfclavette

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jfclavette

Sep 22, 2006 at 12:39 PM

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Original post by Rob Loach
Quote:
From the GoodSearch FAQ page
Fifty percent of the revenue generated from advertisers is shared with the charity, school or nonprofit organization of your choosing.
Only fifty percent? Where does the rest of the money go?..... Should there be a charity setup for GameDev?

Probably a miux of operational costs and Yahoo! for supporting the service. If 50% makes it to the charities, that's already much more efficient than most charities.

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