Friday, May 4, 2012

Day 125: Performed A Bunch of Goodsearches

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a fool for random trivia.  I tape Jeopardy.  I drink Snapples simply for the random facts on the bottom of the lid.  I fill my brain with a ton of useless (and sometimes useful) information.  One of the vehicles that I have used to enhance my trivia knowledge is the internet.  Anytime a thought pops into my head or there is something I feel the need to know, I hurry up and search for the answer on Google or Wikipedia.  There really isn't a reason why I do this because I have never actually tried out to be on a game show or even called in to a radio station to answer questions.  Having this insatiable thirst for trivial knowledge is something that I never thought I could really utilize for my random acts of kindness.  That is until one of our readers emailed me with a website that could both feed my mind while helping others out. 

Goodsearch is a search engine powered by Yahoo that donates 50% of its' revenue (about a penny per search) to different charities listed on their site.  When performing a search on the site, you have the option of selecting from a number of different charities with which to make a donation.  You even have the option of adding your own charity, school or cause to the list of charities for a new way to earn money for them.  So today, for my random act of kindness, I am going to be using Goodsearch as the tool for my never-ending quest for useless knowledge.  Moving forward, it is going to be what I use for all of these searches and seeing as how I search for things about 100 times a day (not an exaggeration), a great amount of money could be raised this year.

6 comments:

  1. I agree with Savvy. What a beautiful idea. So cool!

    Cathy Trails

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  2. Awesome blog. Have you been to freerice.com. Such an easy thing to do to help developing nations.

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  3. Which charity did you choose? And yes, freerice.com rocks!

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  4. I've used GoodSearch for a long time. I love it <3 Thanks for the mention of freerice.com it not only is such a worth action it also builds vocabulary skills. One Tribe~One Love!One Heart~One Peace~One Earth <3

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  5. That is awesome. I work in Internet Marketing so I'm not sure I can convince my demographic to switch over, but for personal use, I'll definitely start using.

    Can I humbly suggest a read for you? I wrote this blog about a transgender person I recently became aware of, who needs help. You get a lot of readers on your blog, it would be fantastic if you could draw some attention to his cause.
    This is what I wrote about him: http://www.mybunnygoboom.com/2012/05/strange-sex-nat-brody-must-read.html

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