# Everyclick prompts Guardian to ask – can't we all share in the search bounty?

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/11/09/everyclick-prompts-guardian-ask-can039t-we-all-share-search-bounty/
- Published: 2006-11-09T23:54:04+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Victor Keegan, writing in the [TechnologyGuardian](http://technology.guardian.co.uk/opinion/story/0,,1942490,00.html)
section of The Guardian, asks “shouldn’t we be paid for using search engines?” He
is prompted to ask this in the wake of search sites such as Everyclick.com in the
UK and Goodsearch.com in the USA which are channelling a percentage of their search
revenues to charity. He comments: “it is only a short step from donating search 
revenues to charity to keeping them yourself”.

Is that the next stage or will online searchers be content to generate income for
charity and not themselves? Perhaps we’ll see a hybrid, along the lines of online
shopping mall Give or Take which lets shoppers choose to keep the commission they
generate from shopping online or donate it to charity. A hybrid search engine could
enable users to choose to keep a percentage of their income or donate it to charity.

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