Comments on: GoodSearch in Greedy Hands http://www.seosurvivor.com/goodsearch-in-greedy-hands/ SEO Consultant in San Diego Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:08:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Tom Ekdahl http://www.seosurvivor.com/goodsearch-in-greedy-hands/comment-page-1/#comment-11149 Tom Ekdahl Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:08:11 +0000 http://www.seosurvivor.com/goodsearch-in-greedy-hands/#comment-11149 You obviously have never had anything to do with in the non- profit sector!! It is to bad that when you google good search this is one of the first things that comes up. Irresponsible ! You obviously have never had anything to do with in the non- profit sector!!
It is to bad that when you google good search this is one of the first things that comes up.
Irresponsible !

]]> By: Tom Ekdahl http://www.seosurvivor.com/goodsearch-in-greedy-hands/comment-page-1/#comment-11148 Tom Ekdahl Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:07:02 +0000 http://www.seosurvivor.com/goodsearch-in-greedy-hands/#comment-11148 You obviously have never had anything to do with in the non- profit sector!! If you had you would have known how stupid that first statement was, Anyone that has anything to do with charity would jump at the chance to do something this easy to help others. It is to bad that when you google good search this is one of the first things that come up. Irresponsible ! You obviously have never had anything to do with in the non- profit sector!!
If you had you would have known how stupid that first statement was,
Anyone that has anything to do with charity would jump at the chance to do something this easy to help others.
It is to bad that when you google good search this is one of the first things that come up.
Irresponsible !

]]> By: Blue http://www.seosurvivor.com/goodsearch-in-greedy-hands/comment-page-1/#comment-10803 Blue Sun, 13 Nov 2011 04:40:22 +0000 http://www.seosurvivor.com/goodsearch-in-greedy-hands/#comment-10803 For one thing, searching on GoodSearch (and meanwhile making a donation) does not require divulging any personal information other than your search term. Registration is optional. For another, I think this whole predicament is quite easily remedied: only select charities you trust. If the system is abused by some parties, I don't think that's anything to give a hoot about, either-- in that situation, Yahoo makes some portion of the money, the abuser receives funds, and advertisers get attention. Not a great situation, but there's nothing particularly harmful about it. For one thing, searching on GoodSearch (and meanwhile making a donation) does not require divulging any personal information other than your search term. Registration is optional.

For another, I think this whole predicament is quite easily remedied: only select charities you trust.

If the system is abused by some parties, I don’t think that’s anything to give a hoot about, either– in that situation, Yahoo makes some portion of the money, the abuser receives funds, and advertisers get attention. Not a great situation, but there’s nothing particularly harmful about it.

]]> By: Alex http://www.seosurvivor.com/goodsearch-in-greedy-hands/comment-page-1/#comment-10741 Alex Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:46:17 +0000 http://www.seosurvivor.com/goodsearch-in-greedy-hands/#comment-10741 While goodsearch.com themselves may be innocent of any intentional misconduct, what surprises me the most is how willing people are to surrender their personal search and shopping data to unknown third parties for a mere penny per search. Guess what? You're being cheated - that information is worth more to the market researchers paying Goodsearch for the data acquired. Much more. And what of the quality of the search results? Yahoo search is hardly as good as Google, or even Bing. Plenty of statistics online regarding that market. I wouldn't be willing to do this unless there was more transparency - just how much is Yahoo being paid for this data being collected from us? I'd rather keep my online activities private, personally. I wish more people understood the ramifications of the information being shared about them online. Stuff like this is indicative of the level of ignorance the average layperson has regarding online privacy. While goodsearch.com themselves may be innocent of any intentional misconduct, what surprises me the most is how willing people are to surrender their personal search and shopping data to unknown third parties for a mere penny per search. Guess what? You’re being cheated – that information is worth more to the market researchers paying Goodsearch for the data acquired. Much more. And what of the quality of the search results? Yahoo search is hardly as good as Google, or even Bing. Plenty of statistics online regarding that market. I wouldn’t be willing to do this unless there was more transparency – just how much is Yahoo being paid for this data being collected from us?

I’d rather keep my online activities private, personally. I wish more people understood the ramifications of the information being shared about them online. Stuff like this is indicative of the level of ignorance the average layperson has regarding online privacy.

]]> By: Sherry http://www.seosurvivor.com/goodsearch-in-greedy-hands/comment-page-1/#comment-10641 Sherry Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:00:19 +0000 http://www.seosurvivor.com/goodsearch-in-greedy-hands/#comment-10641 I find it sad that you don't believe in the end most people are good. I'm giving to the aged in my old hometown. A big $146.00 they've earned. Sure people need to be honest and your warning about corrupt companies is legit only you make Good Search sound like the corrupt organization. It was a few people who thought a penny here and there could help so suitable organizations. I do wish you would believe in people being basically good at heart. Geeaea, my sister and sister in law both work at St Jude Children's Research Hospital but before either did my family had a first hand experience with just what that hospital does with it's money! There's no hiding anything! The children and research a the number one priority. By making a blanket statement as you did you try to put all non-profits in the same basket. Now I wouldn't give money to my husband's not for profit hospital as they charge people for their services. But St Jude, who's not on the list but hopefully will be, doesn't charge families for their care, sleeping accommodations, any and everything a family in crisis might need. I even donate my sky miles to St Jude because some families can't afford to fly to Memphis to seek care. Does that make it wrong that I'm using an obviously profitable company, credit card, to help the charitable? St. Jude has to pay their staff and it's nothing super special compared to other hospitals, once you're a patient you can return at ANY AGE for ANY KIND OF CARE! This is a hospital that took childhood cancer survival rate from the 20% category to 97% for leukemia alone. More kids by far leave the hospital healthy than don't and families are forever touched, no matter the medical outcome, by the work of everyone at St Jude. So we should just stop raising money for them by going to Chili's once a year on St Jude day, or shopping at stores that give 10% of your sale to St. Jude? Were would breast cancer be with the marathons, selling ribbons, etc. It is totally up to the person selecting the charity to make sure it's legit, don't blame the Good Search idea for bad people. And I stand by my first thought, people are heart are good. I find it sad that you don’t believe in the end most people are good. I’m giving to the aged in my old hometown. A big $146.00 they’ve earned. Sure people need to be honest and your warning about corrupt companies is legit only you make Good Search sound like the corrupt organization. It was a few people who thought a penny here and there could help so suitable organizations. I do wish you would believe in people being basically good at heart.
Geeaea, my sister and sister in law both work at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital but before either did my family had a first hand experience with just what that hospital does with it’s money! There’s no hiding anything! The children and research a the number one priority. By making a blanket statement as you did you try to put all non-profits in the same basket. Now I wouldn’t give money to my husband’s not for profit hospital as they charge people for their services. But St Jude, who’s not on the list but hopefully will be, doesn’t charge families for their care, sleeping accommodations, any and everything a family in crisis might need. I even donate my sky miles to St Jude because some families can’t afford to fly to Memphis to seek care. Does that make it wrong that I’m using an obviously profitable company, credit card, to help the charitable? St. Jude has to pay their staff and it’s nothing super special compared to other hospitals, once you’re a patient you can return at ANY AGE for ANY KIND OF CARE! This is a hospital that took childhood cancer survival rate from the 20% category to 97% for leukemia alone. More kids by far leave the hospital healthy than don’t and families are forever touched, no matter the medical outcome, by the work of everyone at St Jude. So we should just stop raising money for them by going to Chili’s once a year on St Jude day, or shopping at stores that give 10% of your sale to St. Jude? Were would breast cancer be with the marathons, selling ribbons, etc.
It is totally up to the person selecting the charity to make sure it’s legit, don’t blame the Good Search idea for bad people. And I stand by my first thought, people are heart are good.

]]> By: Rob http://www.seosurvivor.com/goodsearch-in-greedy-hands/comment-page-1/#comment-9962 Rob Sat, 06 Aug 2011 17:32:04 +0000 http://www.seosurvivor.com/goodsearch-in-greedy-hands/#comment-9962 My Charity uses goodsearch and goodshop and are totally blessed by the money we receive every year. It is up to every person to do their due diligence concering the Non-profits they support. Since all have to register with their local Corp comission it is not difficult. As always the most efficient way to support an organization is to donate directly to them. Goodsearch provides an additional way that you can support organizations with no out of pocket risk it truely is a win/win My Charity
uses goodsearch and goodshop and are totally blessed by the money we receive every year. It is up to every person to do their due diligence concering the Non-profits they support. Since all have to register with their local Corp comission it is not difficult. As always the most efficient way to support an organization is to donate directly to them. Goodsearch provides an additional way that you can support organizations with no out of pocket risk it truely is a win/win

]]> By: fas http://www.seosurvivor.com/goodsearch-in-greedy-hands/comment-page-1/#comment-8738 fas Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:05:52 +0000 http://www.seosurvivor.com/goodsearch-in-greedy-hands/#comment-8738 @Eric, I like to clear my cookies manually frequently. They also can get cleared automatically with utilities or otherwise when cleaning up. I can't imagine not clearing your browser/cookies for a couple years. They can slow things down. Don't like all that tracking of my business either. I've set my charity as my home page so I can restore easily. You just need to include the charity's id #, example below: http://www.goodsearch.com/?charityid=123456 @Eric, I like to clear my cookies manually frequently. They also can get cleared automatically with utilities or otherwise when cleaning up. I can’t imagine not clearing your browser/cookies for a couple years. They can slow things down. Don’t like all that tracking of my business either.

I’ve set my charity as my home page so I can restore easily. You just need to include the charity’s id #, example below:

http://www.goodsearch.com/?charityid=123456

]]> By: Eric http://www.seosurvivor.com/goodsearch-in-greedy-hands/comment-page-1/#comment-8645 Eric Sun, 10 Apr 2011 23:17:47 +0000 http://www.seosurvivor.com/goodsearch-in-greedy-hands/#comment-8645 fas, my charity setting never gets cleared, unless I have deleted the cookie from my files. I've been using GoodSearch for a couple years, and my charity has never just randomly disappeared. fas, my charity setting never gets cleared, unless I have deleted the cookie from my files.

I’ve been using GoodSearch for a couple years, and my charity has never just randomly disappeared.

]]> By: fas http://www.seosurvivor.com/goodsearch-in-greedy-hands/comment-page-1/#comment-8636 fas Sun, 10 Apr 2011 02:19:51 +0000 http://www.seosurvivor.com/goodsearch-in-greedy-hands/#comment-8636 I wanted to add that one thing I'm finding disturbing about Goodsearch is that the charity setting gets cleared. So you think you're donating when all you're really doing is making money for the Goodsearch search engine people. I'm finding the notion of one's charity setting falling through the cracks to be a bit on the dark side and perhaps even by design. There is a toolbar for IE and Firefox. Maybe that works better and has a counter or some other indicator to let you know your charity setting has been removed so searches aren't actually donating ... if you actually remember to keep tabs on it. I wanted to add that one thing I’m finding disturbing about Goodsearch is that the charity setting gets cleared. So you think you’re donating when all you’re really doing is making money for the Goodsearch search engine people. I’m finding the notion of one’s charity setting falling through the cracks to be a bit on the dark side and perhaps even by design.

There is a toolbar for IE and Firefox. Maybe that works better and has a counter or some other indicator to let you know your charity setting has been removed so searches aren’t actually donating … if you actually remember to keep tabs on it.

]]> By: fas http://www.seosurvivor.com/goodsearch-in-greedy-hands/comment-page-1/#comment-8631 fas Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:48:27 +0000 http://www.seosurvivor.com/goodsearch-in-greedy-hands/#comment-8631 I agree the Red Cross CEO salary is not where I want my money to go. (I believe that's how they entice the best to come work for them rather than for a public company). I also read that the head of a PBS station was pulling in about $750,000 a year. Three quarters of a million dollars a year! To run a tv station! I no longer support that organization. I agree the Red Cross CEO salary is not where I want my money to go. (I believe that’s how they entice the best to come work for them rather than for a public company). I also read that the head of a PBS station was pulling in about $750,000 a year. Three quarters of a million dollars a year! To run a tv station! I no longer support that organization.

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