GoodSearch – donates money each time you search the web

Filed in: Web — July 21st, 2006

GoodSearch

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?

  1. Visit GoodSearch.com
  2. Enter the charity or school you support, then click “Verify”
  3. Select a charity from the list
  4. Search the web on GoodSearch
  5. Each time you search, $0.01 is generated for your selected charity or school

The drawback

GoodSearch charities

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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  • http://www.submit88.com/ Search Engine Guru

    Great idea… hope they can keep funding it coz the money has to come from somewhere. It looks like they use Yahoo Search.

  • http://www.submit88.com Search Engine Guru

    Great idea… hope they can keep funding it coz the money has to come from somewhere. It looks like they use Yahoo Search.

  • LcF

    Yup, it is using Yahoo search and make money from yahoo ads.

  • LcF

    Yup, it is using Yahoo search and make money from yahoo ads.

  • http://fisherwy.blogspot.com/ w.y.

    Good idea, but its fortunate is almost already doomed by the merits of Google search. Am I right?

  • http://fisherwy.blogspot.com w.y.

    Good idea, but its fortunate is almost already doomed by the merits of Google search. Am I right?

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  • Joseph

    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.

  • Joseph

    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.

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