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.
Great idea… hope they can keep funding it coz the money has to come from somewhere. It looks like they use Yahoo Search.
Yup, it is using Yahoo search and make money from yahoo ads.
Good idea, but its fortunate is almost already doomed by the merits of Google search. Am I right?
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.