Or you can set your browser to have two home pages - one as SK and the other as your preferred search engine. That way, when you open the net, both open up and SK still gets a visit.
Danielle from Brisbane, Australia
Sunday, February 15, 2009 at 8:08:52 PM
Reiterating this suggestion - move to a different search engine. Ask.com (for so far as I know) is pretty much unaffiliated with the big guys - they could really use some good publicity (just look at the survey you ran!) and might let you keep the results page as well.
Also - in relation to the survey - I have to say I was really pleased to see the diversity of people & ages on this site. That was really cool.
L3na
Sunday, February 15, 2009 at 8:08:09 PM
BTW, for those of you who use Firefox, there's an extension called RefControl, you could use that to fake the HTTP referrer until this issue is fixed.
See here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/953
Anonymous
Sunday, February 15, 2009 at 5:05:25 PM
You wrote: May 2008 $817.40 Compassion International will be sending a check out by the end of November
Have they been paid? It's been 9 months. Do the current charities know that they won't be seeing any checks for a very long time?
Katie from Jacksonville, FL
Sunday, February 15, 2009 at 2:02:39 AM
you can still search. put your term in the sk box, you will be redirected to google with the error message, click the google link, and voila. its the same amount of clicks as before and SK gets the page views. so, so what? onward!!!
Af from California
Friday, February 13, 2009 at 9:09:36 PM
I think that is horrible, i will pray for you that google fixes this, because if they dont, big troubles from the big guy upstairs
your hearts were in the right place, that is all that matters, let God take care of google, they either give this, or loose google
i advertise your site you know,
http://thewitness.yuku.com
i have not placed it up their yet, but have on multiply
Dawn Gordon from All Over The World (internet
Friday, February 13, 2009 at 8:08:44 PM
This is such a great idea for a website, but this mismanagement is forcing me to switch back to google. There always seems to be something going wrong.
E from USA
Friday, February 13, 2009 at 9:09:20 AM
Yeah, I did a little test and apparently the Google search page checks the referrer header (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referrer), and rejects any request from searchkindly.org.
I wonder why :(
--That's interesting. We have no idea as to why, either. --Syed
Anonymous
Friday, February 13, 2009 at 4:04:40 AM
I seem to be getting an error everytime I search from SK. This is what comes up...
"Forbidden
Your client does not have permission to get URL /search?hl=en&q=facebook&btnG=Search from this server. (Client IP address: 96.235.179.176)
We apologize for your inconvenience, but this request could not be processed.
Please click here to continue your search on Google."
--Yes...something's up. We haven't figured it out yet, but Google might be pissed again. --Syed
Theresa from NJ
Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 9:09:21 AM
two suggestions for charities to look at in the future:
one- the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America (you would be so surprised how many kids and adolescents have to live with these diseases)
two- Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Gang camps for kids with chronic and potentially terminal illnesses
both are great philanthropies
love the work you're doing!
Brianna from CA
Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 3:03:12 AM
