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katydee comments on Use Search Engines Early and Often - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: katydee 05 May 2013 08:33AM

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Comment author: katydee 08 May 2013 01:49:27AM 1 point [-]

I'm definitely very surprised that this post ended up at -1. Can some of the downvoters offer expanded explanations either here or via PM? My current model is that people thought I was plugging Goodsearch too hard, so if you downvoted the post for reasons other than that I'm especially interested in hearing from you.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 11 May 2013 12:44:31PM 0 points [-]

For me a related reason was that you told us to use Goodsearch without telling us why should we believe this:

Goodsearch is a service that automatically donates a cent to a charity of your choice whenever you search.

To me it pattern-matches to hoaxes like "if you send this message to all your friends, Bill Gates will send a dollar to children in Africa" and many similar.

Sure, I could do some research about it. But since you are the one using LW to promote Goodsearch, perhaps the research should be done using your time.

Also, asking people to install a "free money-making software" on their computers pattern-matches to some bad things.

In other words, if you want us to use Goodsearch, then give us more specific information about Goodsearch, not only applause lights.