GoodSearch – donates money each time you search the web
Filed in: Web — July 21st, 2006
GoodSearch is a search engine that make donation to your choice of U.S. charity for each of your search query. It is powered by Yahoo! search.
Currently, GoodSearch donates 1 cent for each search. Their goal is to direct 50% or revenues to the designated causes. GoodSearch makes revenue from Yahoo! search sponsored links. Everyone can add a charity to benefit from GoodSearch.
How can you support your favorite charity?
- Visit GoodSearch.com
- Enter the charity or school you support, then click “Verify”
- Select a charity from the list
- Search the web on GoodSearch
- Each time you search, $0.01 is generated for your selected charity or school
The drawback
GoodSearch sorts charities by alphabet and the charity selection box only shows the first three charities. If someone register a charity name prefix with a period then the charity will be sorted at the top. If you check the amount raised, the first three charities make a lot more than the other charities down the list. This is unfair.
Is GoodSearch Scam?
I don’t think so. GoodSearch was highlighted in of many news agencies like The New York Times, Fortune, and The Wall Street Journal.
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July 22nd, 2006 at 5:46 pm
Great idea… hope they can keep funding it coz the money has to come from somewhere. It looks like they use Yahoo Search.
July 22nd, 2006 at 6:05 pm
Yup, it is using Yahoo search and make money from yahoo ads.
July 22nd, 2006 at 8:45 pm
Good idea, but its fortunate is almost already doomed by the merits of Google search. Am I right?
July 22nd, 2006 at 9:38 pm
GoodSearch: Donate to Charity each time you Search the Web!
GoodSearch is a Yahoo powered search engine with a social mission in its mind. It donates 1 cent per query to charity of your choice.
How does this Work ?
On the GoodSearch homepage, choose from thousands of organizations or add your favorite cause t…
March 10th, 2007 at 1:33 am
I can’t stand yahoo search. The results are so bad, and it is much less pleasing than google search. But it would be worth it to support my favorite charity. I wish google would start a company on the same model.