GoodSearch

GoodSearch is a search engine created by Yahoo which gives 50% of its income, that is to say a penny by research, equivalent to a few centimes of euros, caritative works American chosen by its users.

The company was rested by graduates of Stanford Ken and J.J. Ramberg after they had lost their mother, of the continuations of a cancer. They created GoodSearch as a means of supporting their favorite cause easily.

In July 2006 more than 15.000 American organizations with nonlucrative goal used already GoodSearch like means of making visible their organization and of collecting funds.

The site was described in NY Times, Oprah Magazine, Wall Street Journal, and Fortune Small Business Magazine. In 2005, research on GoodSearch made it possible to collect nearly 6 billion $ incomes the advertisers. The goal of GoodSearch is to direct a percentage of this income towards the good causes. What certain users can find awkward at the time of research is the systematic presence of commercial sites in the first results of a search even if they relate to his research; it is the price to pay to finance charity works.

External bonds

Official Website
Founders
How it Works

Press

Fortune Small Business
NY Times
The Stanford Daily

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