[tmtranscripts] Good Search

[B. Devine]

Hey there,

The Association for Light and Life is now registered with Good Search, www.goodsearch.com, the search engine that supports non-profits with 50 percent of their proceeds.  Many thanks to Jim who proposed us looking into this, and after reviewing it and presenting it at our council meeting last week, we have decided to participate.  If you can help us with it, we'd sure appreciate it.

Every time someone does a search at www.goodsearch.com, the Association for Light and Life can make a portion of the proceeds.  We are going to do an experiment this year with the Association for Light and Life and see if we can raise a portion of our funding through this manner, by having our Council and any other Members who are willing, make Good Search their search engine and doing all searches through them.  For every search you do, ALL will make approximately 1 cent.  Over a year's time, that adds up.  An organization that has 100 people using Good Search, for example, makes around $700 a year.

What people need to do, is go to www.goodsearch.com, where you can type in the non-profit name Association for Light and Life and once you click on verify, you can search.

Not sure if adding it to your toolbar still recognizes the non-profit or not.  It says it will recognize based on cookies, so hopefully it can work if you want to add it to your toolbar, although every time you clear cookies, you may have to go back and re-add Association for Light and Life as your non-profit.

Setting Good Search as one's home page could work to remind us to use it instead of another search engine.  I have done so, and it allows me to go there when opening my browser and then be reminded every time I start working on the computer.

To add Good Search as your home page:

On Internet Explorer, you click on Tools, then Internet Options, then type www.goodsearch.com where your current home page is, then click on Apply down at the bottom.  That should update Good Search as your home page.

With Firefox, click on Tools, then Options, then make sure you're on the Main tab, then type www.goodsearch.com in the home page and click on OK.

It's worth trying out, anyway.  If enough people start doing it, we could get a bit of a boost in funding each year.  As of today, we've made 8 cents so far and that's in the time 3 of us have signed up.  We'd appreciate any who want to add ALL as their non-profit and utilize the Good Search engine.

Peace,
Bob
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