Love The GOP Toolbar

I know I'm catching up on lost time, but I really love the GOP Toolbar.  You can easily have it installed and it puts a great political toolbar in your web browser, plus uses Yahoo search.  According to this WSJ article every time you search or make a qualifying purchase you add donations into the GOP.  Sure it might be pennies at a time, but if you make a lot of searches during the day it can add up.  Obviously the payments are as a result of search bounty payments and bounty purchases, but so what?  At least someone is benefiting from these payments instead of them being wasted.  Plus, it helps Yahoo with their "battle" with Google for searches.

I think these micro payments has been available from Yahoo for a while and is very similar to the new cashback search plan from Microsoft.  The only problem with these programs are that they are trying to take search activity from Google which is very difficult.  Plus, these are nothing new - back in the dark ages of the internet you could have won money from your searches if you used iWon.

The GOP toolbar is a wonderful concept and I hope it spreads.  It gives the GOP a wonderful opportunity to push messages out very cost effectively and generate donations from simple things like searching.

PardonMyFrench,

Eric