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What an amazing idea you all have! I've been telling everyone i know about this site and coming on here like crazy. I also sent the link into i-am-bored.com....thinking they might post it...and when anything gets posted onto their site...it goes like hotcakes! But they havent posted it yet...so still not sure...but either way you will get a million visitors a day very soon im sure of it! GOD BLESS!

Elizabeth from Maryland
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at 12:12:54 AM

Just wanted to let you know that the blue "recent blog" notifier thing in the upper-left of the home page was not updated to reflect tonight's entry. also, a reddit link might be a good link to add to the del.icio.us, digg, facebook, etc. links. I know you must be busy... I just wanted to make sure you were aware! Thanks for everything!!

Stoney229 from MO
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at 12:12:42 AM

First off, I absolutely love this site and the varied causes, but I was curious about advertising it on livejournal. Is it okay if I make banner linking to search kindly to post on my bio or are there already some banners available? I would appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction. Sorry if this was the wrong place to post this.

--Yes! Of couse you can make a banner and link to us. We're in the process of building a page that has a bunch of banners that people can copy, but we also have a few other things on our to-do list. So...in the meantime, please feel free to do whatever you think is best to help promote Search Kindly. If you'd like some of the banners that we already have, please email me directly by using the Contact Us form and I'll send those off to you. And just so you know, this was the perfect place to ask that question.--Syed

New But Optimistic from Ky
Tuesday, March 13, 2007 at 1:01:15 PM

I agree... I don't remember seeing lingerie ads but I would rather not see them here in the first place even if they do generate money. In fact, I think indecent ads will maker the site less effective b/c some people would choose not to use it.

Also... thanks for putting in the navigation hyperlinks at the bottom too!

--I'm going to comment more about this in tonight's blog-post, but in a nutshell, we don't support those types of ads on Search Kindly, either. Unfortunately, though, we have no way of knowing exactly what ads are being shown to all of our users. Though we have opted only for "family-friendly" ads with our advertising network, apparently there are some not-so-friendly ones slipping through the cracks. More on this later.--Syed

Stoney229 from MO
Tuesday, March 13, 2007 at 5:05:35 AM

I cried when I saw the Invisible Children website. If any organization is in need of money, it is this one.

Lara from Santa Ana
Tuesday, March 13, 2007 at 1:01:27 AM

I think Stoney had a good point about voting for more than one. One other thing - earlier I noticed a lingerie ad on here, and I wanted to forewarn that as much as I love this site (it's my homepage currently) if the ads start getting inappropriate I won't be on here anymore. Tonight my parents were going to buy something from Amazon and I would have told them to BuyKindly but I wasn't sure of what would be on the site, so I didn't. But thanks for a great site, and keep up the good work.

--I agree with you on certain types of ads being inappropriate for Search Kindly. If possible, in the future could you please let me know exactly where that ad was located, what it looked like, and who the advertiser was? That will make it easier for me to make sure that it doesn't happen again (I hope).--Syed

Joanna from Michigan
Monday, March 12, 2007 at 11:11:40 PM

i also think that we should be donating to some new charities, not the same ones (invisible children, etc.) i think they're still in desperate need of our support, but we should also be getting the word out about other causes. maybe do a repeat donation AFTER a bunch have been donated to at least once - you know, like make sure everyone has had their firsts before giving out second helpings :)

Barbie from Virginia
Monday, March 12, 2007 at 6:06:29 PM

The voting option is pretty cool - nice work =) After browsing through the websites I like the looks of Baal Dan the best I think. So what happens next month for the charities that get 2nd or 3rd place? Do ppl have to vote for them all over again for the next month?

Adam from CO
Saturday, March 10, 2007 at 8:08:43 PM

a few things:
1) on the "feel free to post a comment HERE" on the "who we support" description, the "here" link goes to the old blogspot site. you might want to fix that.

2) you should add links for sharing on digg, facebook, and del.icio.us.

3) It weould be nice to have the navigation links (First << 1 2 3 4 >> Last) at the bottom of the comments page as well as the top.

4) I think you should put the graphic ads for buying on amazon and ebay back up on the bottom of the homepage, because I think a lot of people might not notice the text ad that is already there and it could make a big difference I think. But keep the text ad too.

5) I think it would be a good idea to allow people to vote for more than one charity in each 8 hour period of time, and only disallow the voting for the same charity within 8 hours. Here's why: Let's make this example simple and say that the list consists of Invisible Children, SaveDarfur, and American Heart Association. The problem is that both Invisible Children and SaveDarfur support similar causes, and so they are competing for the same audience of people that think the situation in darfur is a more worthy cause than the domestic causes supported by the American Heart Association- but it is still good to have both Invisible Children and SaveDarfur because you want people to be able to decide which of the two if more worthy of receiving the money. But let's say that 60% of users agree that the a Darfur charity is more worthy of our support than the AHA, and only 40% think the that AHA is more worthy of a cause. This would indicate that one of the 2 darfur charities should be chosen. but if the 60% of people that prefer a Darfur charity are not united on which of the two is more worthy of receiving the charity, then a hypothetically breakdown would reasonably be similar to a little over half of the of the Darfur supprt going to the preferred of the to (let's say Invisible Children) and a little less than half going to the other (being SaveDarfur). The breakdown would then be as follows:
American Heart Association: 40% Invisible Children: 35% Savedarfur: 25%

meaning that AHA would take the vote, despite the earlier conclusion that at least one of the 2 Darfur charities should receive it.

If people were able to vote for more than one charity for each voting period, then the problem would be solved: The majority of the sixty percent that prefer a Darfur charity would vote for both charities available because they prefer both of them to AHA, and whichever of the two is more prefered would in fact win the vote.

Stoney229 from MO
Saturday, March 10, 2007 at 6:06:06 PM

PLEASE vote for invisible children! the plight of these child soldiers in uganda is one of the most underreported humanitarian crises in the world.

Lourdes from Chicago
Saturday, March 10, 2007 at 1:01:09 PM

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