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Multitasking for a good cause with Goodsearch.com

Internet users can contribute to a better world one search at a time. Many individuals are just now discovering Goodsearch.com, a company that contributes money to causes when people use its search engine. Goodsearch promises to donate at least 50 percent of its generated revenue from qualified searches.

Disaster relief, protecting the environment, finding cures, and supporting schools are among the top causes users support.

The site was in launched in 2005 by a brother-sister team, Ken Ramberg from JOBTRAK and JJ Ramberg from MSNBC. The team dedicated the site to their mother who taught them “by working together with dogged dedication, we can really make this world a better place.”

Try it out
Even if multitasking isn’t your thing, Goodsearch makes it easy to search and give at the same time.

Visit the website: www.goodsearch.com, powered by Yahoo. Enter the charity of your choice in the field titled “Who Do You Goodsearch For?” Click “Verify.” If the charity is included among the 87,000-plus non-profits in the GS database, you’ll see a message saying the money will go to your cause. Now you simply enter the term you’re looking for and hit Search, as you would with any search engine.

While at the site, you can view the entire database of nonprofits listed from A to Z, learn how you can add a new organization, read about the charity of the day or about individuals or companies doing good, and learn about buying products with GoodShop.

What others are saying
In January 2010, GoodSearch was featured on the web by Green Planet; Yahoo Answers (How can I help Haiti Relief) and Wikipedia. It was recommended by New Life Pet Adoption Center; American Copy Editors Society; Gizmo’s Freeware, to name a few. Over the past several years, it has been praised by PC World, the Huffington Post, USA Today, The New York Times, and others.

For more information, follow the links below:
- Planet Green
- Wikipedia:
- New Life Pet Adoption Center
- GoodSearch In the News

-- Lynn Robbins
Email: lr@webandofficeworks.com

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