Rated 1 out of 5 stars

by meg on Dec. 19, 2010 · permalink

A couple of years ago I was looking at a particular charity's website and found GoodSearch. I thought it was a great idea, so I installed it and tried to use it as much as possible, thinking I was helping them out. But when I got a new computer, with a different operating system, I discovered I'd have to reinstall GoodSearch, and finding out how to do that *with the link to my charity* was really hard. Plus, I discovered on GoodSearch's site that if you don't enable cookies for all their advertisers your donation won't go to your charity - and since I had Firefox set to delete cookies at the end of each session, it's doubtful that any of the money from my searches actually went to the charity. That's really disappointing. And if they can't figure out who your charity is, or if you don't pick one (as another reviewer here said), they use the money for their own operating costs. That's probably where the money from my searches was going. So I either have to enable lots of advertiser cookies - the list on the GoodSearch page had 15 of them - or find another way to support that charity. I'm opting to find another way. This system just doesn't work very well.