Progressive Wednesday

How to Search Progressive, Part II

Editor’s note: One week ago today, we started our four-part series on how to search the Internet progressively. And yes, there are four better ways to search the Internet than just relying on Google, Microsoft Live Search, Yahoo, or Ask.com. Click this sentence to read what we wrote last week about the problems with searching the WWW, and the first suggestion we made.

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GoodSearch.com

Okay, all that talk from last week about librarians aside, there are times when you need to find out what your ex is up to, or find a time-wasting website or blog, or find things potentially unmentionable to your publicly PG librarians. You're gonna need a search engine.

Allow us to kindly recommend GoodSearch.com. This sucker seems too good to be true, but it ain't. GoodSearch is a search engine, powered by Yahoo, that donates 50% “of its revenue to the charities and schools designated by its users.” So the results you get for your search are good (since a legit engine is powering GoodSearch), and the money is raised solely from advertising, neither the users of GoodSearch nor the charities listed pay anything. Remember: you get to choose the charity or organization of your choice. If you have any questions, here are the FAQs.

Not convinced? You can read what the company has to say for itself here, and for its founders here, and for some of the bigwigs lending them a hand here.

Still not convinced its legit, buckaroo? Check out this New York Times article here, and a CNN piece on the engine here, and a feature on this nonprofit in Entrepreneur Magazine here.

To make life that much easier, you can download a toolbar for IE, Firefox, and Safari right over here. We'd like to recommend passing the word along: just click here. Consider it your progressivism for the day. And here's a way to add a link to Good Search to the bottom of your emails. The more folks who know about this, we think, the better.

We can’t think of an easier way to raise cashola for the charity of your choice.