Charity Search Engines

Everyone who’s on the internet uses search engines to find the information that they needed. The massive amount of search engine users makes it a natural vessel for businesses and individuals who want to promote their website through advertisements.

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.