Who Has Your Search Engine Helped Today?
By Erica Greppo on Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
How many times have you searched the internet today? Ok .. now how many times have you helped out a charity today?
Well, if you use GoodSearch, those numbers should be the same. I have been a strict Google user for many years now, but today might be the day I change search engines. Powered by Yahoo!, GoodSearch allows you to enter the name of a charity each time you search. GoodSearch will then donate fifty percent of all ad revenue from that search to your chosen charity.
Granted, it only works out to about a penny per search, but it does add up over time. GoodSearch even lets you see how much it has added up to. Check out the Amount Raised page and it will show you how much your charity has received each month, each year and since the inception of the site. For example, they have donated $1,506.14 to my charity of choice, the Susan G. Komen foundation.
Not bad for a search engine.
Thanks for posting this Erica. This reminds me of one of Raghu’s posts a while back When Doing Good is Good Business.
It’s refreshing to see businesses getting involved in such visible ways. Maybe this is “Charity 2.0.”
What a cool concept! I can search and do good at the same time. The search works well, too.