How to Search Progressive, Part II
April 10th, 2007 by Progressive Wednesday
Editor’s note: One week ago today, we started our four-part series on how to search the Internet progressively. And yes, there are four better ways to search the Internet than just relying on Google, Microsoft Live Search, Yahoo, or Ask.com. Click this sentence to read what we wrote last week about the problems with searching the WWW, and the first suggestion we made.
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GoodSearch.com
Okay, all that talk from last week about librarians aside, there are times when you need to find out what your ex is up to, or find a time-wasting website or blog, or find things potentially unmentionable to your publicly PG librarians. You’re gonna need a search engine.
Allow us to kindly recommend GoodSearch.com. This sucker seems too good to be true, but it ain’t. GoodSearch is a search engine, powered by Yahoo, that donates 50% “of its revenue to the charities and schools designated by its users.” So the results you get for your search are good (since a legit engine is powering GoodSearch), and the money is raised solely from advertising, neither the users of GoodSearch nor the charities listed pay anything. Remember: you get to choose the charity or organization of your choice. If you have any questions, here are the FAQs.
Not convinced? You can read what the company has to say for itself here, and for its founders here, and for some of the bigwigs lending them a hand here.
Still not convinced its legit, buckaroo? Check out this New York Times article here, and a CNN piece on the engine here, and a feature on this nonprofit in Entrepreneur Magazine here.
To make life that much easier, you can download a toolbar for IE, Firefox, and Safari right over here. We’d like to recommend passing the word along: just click here. Consider it your progressivism for the day. And here’s a way to add a link to Good Search to the bottom of your emails. The more folks who know about this, we think, the better.
We can’t think of an easier way to raise cashola for the charity of your choice.
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[…] So, on Tuesday, we told you about Good Search, the search engine fully powered by Yahoo, which donates half of the profits from ad revenue to the charity of your choice. So, this week, we’re asking that you only use Good Search to crawl the web, and select the WWF (the World Wildlife Foundation) as the charity. If nothing else, there’s this to love about the WWF — they forced the World Wrestling Federation to change their name to the WWE! What’s not to love?But you want the skinny? It goes like this: the 45-year-old, non-political, global, independent, and multicultural World Wildlife Foundation strives to conserve and protect the planet’s biodiversity, promote cutting our oodles of pollution, and make sure that we use our natural resources in a sustainable fashion. How? Well, they “are currently funding around 2,000 conservation projects and employ almost 4,000 people across the planet.” And they work closely with the locals in every area where a project is focused. […]
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