Selena Gomez Icon Driven UNICEF’s Trick Or Treat Campaign is raising money by YOUR HELP! Every time you use Goodsearch.com as your search engine (instead of google or yahoo etc) a penny will be donated to UNICEF. What a great (and convienent) way to help out a great cause that we can all do right now!

Here’s a new easy way to raise money for DeafBlind Hope. Just start using Yahoo! powered GoodSearch.com as your search engine and they’ll donate a penny to your favorite cause every time you do a search! In addition, do all of your shopping through their online shopping mall, GoodShop.com, where you can shop at more than 700 top online retailers and a percentage of your purchases will go to the charity or school of your choice. You pay the same price as you normally would, but a donation goes to your cause!

Here’s the web site — http://www.goodsearch.com. You can also read about GoodSearch in the NY Times, Oprah Magazine, CNN, ABC News and the Wall Street Journal.

For those of you who have Internet Explorer 7, you might have noticed the little search box on the upper right hand corner of the  browser.  By default it is set to Live Search, but you can change it. Heres how:

1. Click the arrow by the search field and select, ‘Find More Providers’.  A Microsoft webpage will open up.

2. You have two categories of search engines, select one or more and select, “Add Provider”.

3. If you use none of the browsers listed, open a separate tab to your browser and type in all caps TEST. Copy the search results URL at the top of the browser and go back to the Microsoft page.  Paste in the field provided. Then type the name of the search engine in the second field and click “Install”.  Go to the drop down arrow by the search field in IE7 and your selected search engine should be listed.

4. To make your search engine of choice you default, again, click the drop down menu by the search field, select “Change Search Defaults” Highlight your browser, and click “Set Default”.  This is also where you can remove unwanted search engines.

I use Goodsearch, a Yahoo-based search engine as my preferred browser so as to raise money for my kid’s school.  If the searches are not up to my standards (very rare), I click down to Google and try again.  It only takes a few extra seconds.  Even better, I removed both search engines off my browser at launch, which in turn now loads faster. Originally I had 8 tabs at launch.

As if I needed yet another application installed into my already over-bloated Vista Business Laptop.  But when I heard about Google’s new Chrome (Beta) browser, I figured my laptop can’t get any worse off, so I decided to give it a whirl.

Installation was dirt easy and took less than five minutes to install and import all my bookmarks (I do not store passwords). I did not opt for the quick launch for or to have it launch from my systray, rather I added another icon to my ever growing desktop. As I have not fully explored the browser yet and certain web sites I utilize only allows for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, it will not be my default browser at this time.

The homepage will look something like this:

It will show your most used pages that you visit, along with a list of your most recently book marked items.

Of the web sites it does not work with, which I use daily are Office Live & Airset.

One of the best features hands down is the Bookmarks bar, which is also on Apple’s Safari.  Explorer does not have this feature and as a result, I have a whopping eight webpages that I use daily set to their own tabs and take 22 seconds to fully load. With the bookmark bar I, there is no need for me to load all these pages at once and it is faster for me to create an additional tab and load from from the bar.  I can event switch the order or the bookmarks. I have yet to test the speed as to how fast multiple tabs load on Chrome.

Interestingly, while doing work for a client, I had to download an image from the web. Once I saved the JPG in my designated folder, on the lower left hand corner of the browser shows the file I downloaded, which I can either open direct, or open the entire folder.  On the lower right hand corner of the screen, I click and it shows my download history and it is searchable. Great if I misplace a downloaded file .

On setting up a default search engine, I was not too happy to see that I could not make goodsearch.com, a Yahoo-based search engine, my default engine, since I use the searches to support my kids’ school.  So until I figure this out, I have it set as a bookmark on the bookmark bar.

So is it worth all the hoopla? I will need another week or so. This entry will likely be edited multiple times as I get used to the browser and it’s capabilities.  Stay tuned!

Now, I don’t know about you, but most of the time, I can find what I need when I search for things on Google. I don’t need my hand held by sites like Mahalo.com, whose editors purport to know better than me what I’m looking for. And I don’t particularly care whether I get a “universal” search result (replete with links to video, reviews and graphics in addition to text), though I can see why it’s nice.

On the other hand, I’m intrigued by the emergence of GoGoQuick.com, a site adds a new feature to searching–the ability to donate to charity as you search. For every click on the site’s paid search ads, GoGoQuick plans to donate 50 percent of that revenue to charity. Interestingly, it’s not the first to offer such a feature; according to DM News, there’s also GoodSearch.com, MagicTaxi.com and the UK’s Everyclick.com, which also donate half of their revenues to charity (though these, unlike GoGoQuick, power their searches with external engines like Yahoo and Ask.com).

So, what’s next? During this year’s election season, wouldn’t it make sense to create a political content-oriented search site that donted proceeds to the site’s political cause of choice? What about a search engine which allowed users to build up credits to spend with local businesses who buy the engine’s paid search services? Maybe an engine which did in-depth, carefully-filtered searches solely among social media channels would work. These are just a few off-the-cuff ideas; I’m sure much better ones are being floated with venture capitalists as I write.

The bottom line is that search, as a plain vanilla service, is getting (for lack of a better word), uh, boring. Users are sick of doing so much scanning and clicking to get so little reward, and finding so little that truly engages them. Given the market’s search fatigue, next-generation search models are bound to explode in the next year or so.

What if Nyaka AIDS Orphans school earned a penny every time you searched the Internet?  Or how about if a percentage of every purchase you made online went to support our cause?  GoodSearch.com is a new Yahoo-powered search engine that donates half its advertising revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. Use it just as you would any search engine, get quality search results from Yahoo, and watch the donations add up!

Just go to http://www.goodsearch.com and be sure to enter Nyaka AIDS Orphans School as the charity you want to support.  And, be sure to spread the word!  You can also download a toolbar for your homepage.  Instructions are here: http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbars.aspx

Thanks,

Chris

Do you google?  Do you yahoo?  We all search for things on the internet.  Well, now we have a way for Sycamore Creek Church to make money when you search. 

What you need to do is instead of using google, yahoo, or msn, go to www.goodsearch.com. In the space where it asks, “Who do you GoodSearch for?”, type in Sycamore Creek Church and hit verify.  When it comes back verified (and it will), you can now use goodsearch to search the web. And Sycamore Creek will earn about one cent for every time you search. So give it a try…it won’t cost you a thing!

Do you shop online?  Would you be willing to shop at those same stores for the same prices and help raise money for Sycamore Creek Church?  All you have to do is go to www.goodshop.com and enter Sycamore Creek Church as your charity.  Then at the bottom of the page you will find links to hundreds of online stores, includin wal-mart, kohls, shutterfly, expedia, and so many more.  If you go through goodshop.com and then to those places, you will still find the same deals, and the company will donate a portion to Sycamore Creek Church.

So go online, and get your search and shop on!

Do you google?  Do you yahoo?  We all search for things on the internet.  Well, now we have a way for Sycamore Creek Church to make money when you search. 

What you need to do is instead of using google, yahoo, or msn, go to www.goodsearch.com. In the space where it asks, “Who do you GoodSearch for?”, type in Sycamore Creek Church and hit verify.  When it comes back verified (and it will), you can now use goodsearch to search the web. And Sycamore Creek will earn about one cent for every time you search. So give it a try…it won’t cost you a thing!

Do you shop online?  Would you be willing to shop at those same stores for the same prices and help raise money for Sycamore Creek Church?  All you have to do is go to www.goodshop.com and enter Sycamore Creek Church as your charity.  Then at the bottom of the page you will find links to hundreds of online stores, includin wal-mart, kohls, shutterfly, expedia, and so many more.  If you go through goodshop.com and then to those places, you will still find the same deals, and the company will donate a portion to Sycamore Creek Church.

So go online, and get your search and shop on!

The next time you need to look for something on-line, start your search with goodsearch.com.  This search engine donates 50% of ad revenues to the charities or their users’ choice.  Simply select the organization you want your searches to go towards and surf away.  Like all search engines, goodsearch makes money when people click on ads or sponsored links.  Inevitably, users will click on some of these, thus earning money for their default charity. 

You can choose from national and local charities that are already registered or add a new one to the growing list of options (all charities will be verified as registered non-profit organizations by goodsearch before any money is disbursed).  According to their homepage, users have already generated over $11,000 in donations for the ASPCA, over $6,000 for The Elephant Sanctuary, and over $4,000 for the Best Friends Animal Society.  There are several creative ways to make goodsearch work for your favorite organization(s).  You can make all of your searches go toward a certain non-profit, or choose a new one every day and spread the wealth around. Click here to see the list of non-profits currently listed in their database.

Their searches are powered by Yahoo!, so expect the same quality of results as you get from their main browser page.  You can set the search engine as your homepage or add goodsearch to your browser’s toolbar for convenience.  To learn more, check out their FAQ’s here. 

This is really one of the easiest ways to earn some significant cash for your favorite organization(s).  Just begin your web searches with goodsearch.com, select an animal-friendly charity, and start browsing for a good cause.