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rrival4• 18 years ago

Be careful - this is against Google's TOS - it both incentivizes clicking on ads and the $ to charity is an unverifiable claim. I set something like this up about a year ago. It lasted about as long as tokogae.com has been reg'd (~3 days) for that reason. That said, if you've found a way around that, I'd love to know about it.

crystalarchives3• 18 years ago

Hm, where I am breaching Google TOS? I've read through it pretty carefully, although I'm not a lawyer, and I can't find anything besides potentially incentivizing the clicking of ads. That is up to their discretion, I'm going to assume it's okay unless they warn me. I've put up a disclaimer though, thanks for pointing that part out.

I'm able to disclose my earnings though Section 7 of the TOS (http://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms) which states:

"You may accurately disclose the amount of Google’s gross payments to You pursuant to the Program."

and I can post my donation receipts for verification. Obviously, this won't happen until after I get the AdSense check, but there's nothing I can do about that for the first month. There won't be many users starting off though, so even if I were a greedy scumbag I wouldn't make too much, and if I actually do as I promise more users will hopefully show up.

rrival4• 18 years ago

I hear you =) Here's a quote from the email (Dec 7th 2006):

Thanks for following up with us and removing the phrase "The more you search the more we give".

Unfortunately, we’re still unable to approve your application for the AdSense program because we found that you are offering incentives to users to perform searches in order to benefit third-parties. This activity is prohibited by AdSense program policies.

AdSense does not currently permit sites that offer financial incentives to users to perform searches. This includes both direct incentives ("we pay you two cents for every search") and indirect incentives to third-parties ("we donate to charity every time you search"). There are a number of reasons for this policy decision, most notably our inability to verify the accuracy of any claims. While we have no doubt that you intend to donate a portion of proceeds to the charities listed on your site, we have no way to verify this with all partners.

For additional questions, I'd encourage you to visit the AdSense Help Center (http://www.google.com/adsense_help), our complete resource center for all AdSense topics. Alternatively, feel free to post your question on the forum just for AdSense publishers: the AdSense Help Group (http://groups.google.com/group/adsense-help).

rrival4• 18 years ago

btw - I think this is why GoodSearch.com uses Yahoo

Philanthropy made easy - just search!

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