Aidgle

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Music Head · #1 Post by **Music Head** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:05 am

I was gonna post this in random rants but I reckon it justifies it's own bigboy thread. Aidgle is a custom version of google. The difference being, that everytime you visit it 1 cent of a US dollar is donated to a non-profit organization doing relief work in current disaster location.

Google receives approximately 200 million search queries per day. Aidgle donates 1 cent every time someone visits us.

If we could get Aidgle to receive 500,000 visits per day, $5000 would be donated daily to people in need. Most people who we help live on less than 2 dollars per day, so we could feed and provide for 2500 people daily.

This is only if 0.25% of Google's users visit Aidgle instead. If that number ever reached 5%, or 10 million visits per day, we would be providing for 50,000 people DAILY. That's a stadium full of people.

The difference you can make by spreading the word is enormous. Please help us make more people visit Aidgle by using the tools on the right.

The site stresses that you get the same results as you would if using Google. So why not make the homepage switch guys, it's effortless and for a good cause too ;) .

http://www.aidgle.com/
http://www.aidgle.com/about.html

Cheers

Quest For Glory Fan · #2 Post by **Quest For Glory Fan** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:29 am

where does the money come from?

Music Head · #3 Post by **Music Head** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:33 am

Quest For Glory Fan wrote:where does the money come from?

I was trying to find that out myself. The only references on the site I could find however was 'Our Sponser'. I just assumed they have sponsered links like Google does. It says revenue goes to the charities.

Angelus3K · #4 Post by **Angelus3K** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:58 pm

Thats nice that charities get 1 cent but who gets the other x amount of cents??

Music Head · #5 Post by **Music Head** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:01 pm

Angelus3K wrote:Thats nice that charities get 1 cent but who gets the other x amount of cents??

I suppose it goes into running and maintaining costs.

Kurdt · #6 Post by **Kurdt** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 5:54 am

What charities and non-profits actually get this money? Where does the poo go?

Music Head · #7 Post by **Music Head** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 5:59 am

Kurdt wrote:What charities and non-profits actually get this money? Where does the poo go?

http://www.aidgle.com/locations.html

Gronagor · #8 Post by **Gronagor** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:39 am

Quite a money-making scheme... playing on people's good nature... (or attempt of...)

I'm not that convinced with the 1 cent thing.

Music Head · #9 Post by **Music Head** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:30 am

I dont see how they could be making huge amounts of money based on peoples good nature. A sponser wouldn't sponser them if they didn't think their money was going to the proper place.