Oblatoo Charitable Search Engine

Oblatoo was set up in 2007 but is not currently operational.

The idea was to establish a charitable search engine. Each time a search was performed 1p would be pledged to charity. The ability to do this was driven by advertising revenue earned from sponsored links in the search results.

Orignally the search results were powered by Google. Unfortunately Google decided that 1p per search was an incentive for users to search. We still refute this claim, but unfortunately Google stopped providing the ads.

The likes of Yahoo! and Ask also refused to partner with Oblatoo due to charitable nature of the search engine.

Consequently, the search engine had to be shut down as without advertising revenue it was impossible to meet any pledges to charities.

The name Oblatoo is derived from oblation, meaning a charitable offering or gift, and as we all know, every top search engine has two o's in it! Unfortunately, our great search engine idea will have to be put on hold for the time being.