Yamoogle - Carbon neutralise your search

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Yamoogle tops 8,000 searches

2008-06-04T08:25:00.000-07:00

Well, it's been a long time coming but paul asplin was the 8,000th user of Yamoogle. We have left it to grow an internet presence over the last six months or so and have learnt a lot, namely that;

When people use Yamoogle for the first time, they then tend to become lifelong Yamooglers

Paul Asplin was the 8,000th Yamoogler

We need to make a couple of wording alterations on the site in order to satisfy Google guidelines

There's a big need for a Yamoogle directory - with hand picked, eco frindly websites

Progress report

2007-11-02T08:15:00.000-07:00

I'll keep this short ... Yamoogle still pottering along being a successful beta version and gearing up for the big proper launch! Thanks again to everyone who's using it as their default search engine, without you guys and girls, the concept would never have worked, lets hope that when we make the official launch in a few weeks time it will do you all proud! Now lets all have a group hug to celebrate ... come on now, don't be shy! Hello? ...

We're back!

2007-10-22T03:43:00.000-07:00

Good news Yamooglers! We're back to a fully functioning search engine! So go, start saving the planet!!!

We're innocent!!

2007-10-19T05:04:00.000-07:00

Our search stopped working today as we think Google have blocked the search from working due to "invalid clicks" basically, Google thinks that people are clicking on the sponsored results of the searches invalidly in order to raise mor money for Yamoogles carbon offsetting although we don't know this for sure as they've not contacted us.

We beleive that this is entirely unfair and are petitioning Google to try and get them to reverse the decision which ultimately will result in thousands, maybe even millions being lost from our environmental cause.

Google have not responded to any of our correspondance with them and we're pretty upset about it down at Yamoogle as you can imagine!

You can help by joining the facebook campaign or however you can to get google to allow us to function again

We'll try to keep you updated ...

Status update

2007-10-17T05:45:00.000-07:00

Well, three weeks old and Yamoogle is fast approaching 4,000 searches and has raised the funds needed to offset over 20 tonnes of carbon! These early figures show us that we're doing better than expected and should acheive higher than 18.1 tonnes per average user per year.

Thanks to you all for using the beta version and putting up with any bugs or slow loading pages, you have given us the realtime data we need to go out and wow some corporates into giving us some free PR or cash for advertising!

You've also managed to offset over 20 tonnes of carbon between you which should bring a smug smile to your faces as you watch your contemporaries using other search engines, getting exactly the same results and sending all that revenue to Google (As if they need it!)

A small request from the Yamoogle team now, please please tell as many people as you can to use yamoogle and download its toolbar. We've already proven that it works and it won't be long before we launch the full version but we need yamooglers like YOU! To go out and about pestering everyone you know to start using us. You can also blog about it as this guy has done or post it on your company website if you have the authority to do so. In fact, the Yamoogler who comes up with the most inventive method of getting people to Yamoogle will get their story and picture posted on the Yamoogle homepage when we launch the full version.

Get Yamoogling!!!

20 Tonnes down!!

2007-10-15T02:48:00.000-07:00

Today Yamoogles users (you) reached a milestone in offsetting approximately 20 tonnes of CO2 so well done to you all.

We are currently researching and evaluating the most appropriate and effective form of offsetting and where to spend the money that we have raised, however, we won't be rushing into any decisions until we've thoroughly researched this area.

If any Yamooglers have useful information on the most efficient companies to go with then we'd love to hear from you.

Well done again to all of you!

Five tonnes of carbon offset every week!

2007-10-09T07:41:00.000-07:00

I'd just like to use this post to thank all of the regular users of Yamoogle so far. The brand is growing and we are just about to launch stage one of our press release however we already have a small number of people who use the site regularly who are currently managing to offset 5 tonnes per week, this probably includes you if you read this blog!

So give yourselves a pat on teh back and be proud to know that in a couple of months time when everyone is talking about Yamoogle, you can say you were there first! Also, don't forget to download the Yamoogle toolbar to make it easier to use Yamoogle as your default search engine

Yamoogle in your toolbar!

2007-10-05T00:22:00.001-07:00

Well done to Jamie who has made the Yamoogle search facility into a download for your toolbar which means you can now access Yamoogle search without even going to the homepage. We'll be putting it up on the site soon but in the meantime you can download it here by clicking this link

New vertical searches'

2007-09-12T11:53:00.000-07:00

We've just placed the vertical searches onto the homepage so you don't have to go to google now to search for images, maps etc which should make us a little more user friendly. As always, we're up for any suggestions for improvements, at this early stage in development you, the early user of Yamoogle have a great opportunity to contribute to the search engine to make it a success and have it developed as you like it. Anything from colours to text changes can be influenced at this stage email info@yamoogle.com to put your views across and we'll listen to what you have to say or, if you have something you'd like the rest of Yamoogle to hear then post a comment on this blog!

As always we need you to keep telling your friends about us whether it be on facebook, myspace digg or simply by opening your mouth and s-p-e-a-k-i-n-g to them like we used to do in the old days before the interweb made us poke and CC people instead.

Layout change

2007-09-10T09:01:00.000-07:00

Today we made our search results green! Hope this is okay with everyone, we may consider changing it back if it starts to get on peoples nerves but I like it for now! We've also added the (beta)caveat to the logo to make sure people know it's a work in development and rejigged the resulkts page around so that you can see more results on the page and don't have to scroll down as much.

Visits from some green MP's have bouyed the team today, lets hope they start to spread the word!

Welcome!

2007-09-08T13:47:00.001-07:00

Welcome to the blog of Yamoogle! Well, we're still in beta testing at the moment, tweaking some of our user issues and also making sure that Yamoogle will work accros a wide range of browsers.

We're going to be looking at the most effective way to spend the revenue over the next year in depth and your comments and suggestions on this matter will be very important to us, after all, it's you, the searcher, who'll have raised the money.