Over the past few years, several social-minded search engines have taken to donating a share of their ad revenues to various charitable organizations.
The search engine charity movement has resulted in various search engines targeted at different charities and geographic locations. This article is the largest online collection of all the charity-based search engines currently available on the internet.
How should I use a charity search engine and how does it work?
You should use a charity search engine as you would normally use other search engines like Google or Yahoo. These search engines make money by displaying advertisements alongside your search results.
The more you search, the more the search engines earn and the end result is that more money goes to a designated charity. All of the charity search engines listed here offer a minimum of 30% of their ad revenues with some of them offering 70 to 100% of whatever they earn from advertising.
A rough monetary estimate: Most charity search engines will donate approximately $0.01 cents per search to charity.
How does a charity search engine help me make money online?
They don’t. But a charity search engine helps other people and organizations in need and is a great way to send some money out by doing what you already do everyday.
Besides, practicing generosity leads to general good karma, which will help you to be rich and financially successful in the future. OK, you don’t have to believe in that. =)
Dosh Dosh’s list of 15 Search Engines that help you donate to Charity
I came across charity search engines by accident after discovering that some visitors came to Dosh Dosh from GoodSearch, one of the search engines listed below. My interest was piqued and I’ve spent some time scouring the internet for information on charity search engines.
To the best of my knowledge, there are only 14 search engines which have openly declared that they will be donating proceeds to charity. If you know of other charity search engines, please leave a comment and I’ll add it to the list.
During my research, I’ve discovered that no one has ever made a full record of all the various charity search engines around. I think its about time that somebody put up a list because its really an excellent cause one should support.
Please feel free to spread the word so everyone can learn more about the various charity search engines available online.
1. EveryClick
“Everyclick allocates 50% of its gross revenue to charity each month. Each active charity receives a proportion of that sum equivalent to the proportion in which its supporters use the website relative to the supporters of other active charities.
The activity of everyclick website users who do not select a specific charity will benefit all active charities on a pro rata basis.”
2. GoodSearch
“Fifty percent of the revenue generated from advertisers is shared with the charity, school or nonprofit organization of your choosing.. We estimate that each Web search will generate approximately $0.01 for the designated charity or school.”
3. MagicTaxi
“MagicTaxi gives 50% of its advertising revenue to charity. Each day we feature a different charity on our homepage. If you prefer you can support just one of our partners.”
4. SearchKindly
“Search Kindly is an Illinois-based Not-for-Profit corporation. Our goal is to raise money for charity through the power of search.
Unlike any other search engine in existence, ALL of the advertising revenue generated by this site is donated to charity. Every. Single. Penny.”
5. GoodTree
“GoodTree is a web homepage that supports charities each time you use the GoodTree web search. 50% of advertising revenue is given to charity. Approximately one-half a cent (U.S.) is generated per web search.”
6. Jikolp
“50% of all revenue generated by Jikolp is donated directly to charity! Jikolp is powered by the Google search engine so you will get the same results you would receive from Google with the added benefit of contributing to a charitable organization.”
7. Oblatoo
“Oblatoo is a search engine with a difference; every time a search is made, 1p is pledged to charity.You can choose your preferred charity from the list of charities that we support.”
8. Charity Cafe
“CharityCafe launched in October 2000, as the world’s first ’search & donate free’ site. All of it! We cover the bare minimum of our costs in running the site, 100% of the rest is split equally between our listed charities”
9. CooRah
“CooRah’s mission is to make an infinite difference in the lives of everyone by providing enlightened solutions for the world. As we earn money from our advertising sponsors, we share 40% to 60% of our revenues with select organizations.”
10. ClickNow
“Half of our gross revenue is allocated to the charities that are registered with us and listed on our website. Each listed charity will receive a proportion of the sum we allocate to charity equivalent to the proportion in which its supporters use the website.”
11. Kazazz
“KaZaZZ! has established the “Search For Charity” Program to help improve the lives of people in need from around the world. This program allocates 10% of all gross revenue generated by KaZaZZ! to select charities.”
12. Clicks4Cancer
“When you use Clicks4Cancer.com as your Home Page, these advertiser’s fees will be shared with us and we, in turn, will collect these commissions and donate 70% of all revenue to various charitable cancer foundations and organizations”
13. Click4TheCause
“For every search performed from this page between January 17 and March 31, 2007, Microsoft will make a contribution to ninemillion.org. All contributions will benefit ninemillion.org to support educational programs for refugee youth.”
14. ClicksCount
“Every search carried out on this special Live search charity site makes a direct donation to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)”
15. CatchTommorow
“A search engine and portal that will help provide funding for U.S. public schools for grades K-12. Each quarter, CatchTomorrow will donate 50 percent of its gross revenue to local schools, allocating the money state by state in relation to the number of visitors to the site from each state.”
