Frequently Asked Questions
- Q: What Is Do Great Good?
- A: Do Great Good is a search engine with a heart. When you search on DoGreatGood.com, you can support some of your favorite charitable causes at no cost to you. InfoSpace, Inc. created the Do Great Good program as an extension of its Search & Rescue program on Dogpile.com.
- Q: How Does Do Great Good Raise Money?
- A: Like other leading search engines, Do Great Good makes money from sponsored links and advertisements, all of which are clearly labeled on our search results pages. When you search the Web on DoGreatGood.com, 50% of the net revenue generated by your search will be donated by InfoSpace on behalf of Do Great Good to various charities. The more you search, the more you help.
- Q: Has InfoSpace Ever Done Anything Like This Before?
- A: InfoSpace has a history of charitable-giving programs through its flagship search engine Dogpile. In December of 2007, Dogpile users and InfoSpace raised $25,000 in donations for The Humane Society of the United States.
In November of 2008, InfoSpace launched the Search & Rescue program on Dogpile to raise funds to help rescue pets in need and by the year's end InfoSpace raised $200,000 from the program.
In 2009, InfoSpace continued the Search & Rescue program to help generate donations for pets in need and has now expanded the program to become Do Great Good, a search engine devoted entirely to supporting charities of all kinds while searching the Web. Through Do Great Good and the Search & Rescue program, InfoSpace has already raised over $200,000 for donations in 2009.
- Q: Which Charities Have Received Donations?
- A: In conjunction with the Search & Rescue program, InfoSpace has donated the following amounts during the calendar year 2009:
- $11,000 to Animal Charities of America
In addition, the following pet charities have received $1,000 each:
http://www.animalcharitiesofamerica.org
- $7,500 to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound
http://www.bbbsps.org
- $5,000 to the Jericho Alliance
http://www.jerichoalliance.org
- $25,000 to the Petfinder.com Foundation
http://www.petfinder.com/foundation
- Alley Cat Allies
http://alleycat.org - American Hospice Foundation
http://www.americanhospice.org - American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation (AKCCHF)
http://www.akcchf.org - American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)
http://www.aspca.org - Animal Friends Rescue
http://www.animalfriendsrescue.org - Animal Legal Defense Fund
http://www.aldf.org - Animal Welfare Association
http://www.awanj.org - Best Friends Animal Society
http://www.bestfriends.org - Canine Partners for Life
http://www.k94life.org - Citizens for Animal Protection
http://www.cap4pets.org - Doctors Without Borders, USA
http://doctorswithoutborders.org - Feeding America’s Hungry Children
http://www.feedingahc.org - Guide Dogs of America
http://www.guidedogsofamerica.org - Hopelink
http://www.hope-link.org - Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)
http://humanesociety.org - Missing Pet Partnership
http://missingpetpartnership.org - National Education for Assistance Dog Services (NEADS)
http://www.neads.org - New Beginnings Pet Rescue
http://www.newbeginningspetrescue.org - Pet Adoption Fund
http://www.petadoptionfund.org - Progressive Animal Welfare Society (PAWS)
http://www.paws.org - SAFE Haven For Cats
http://www.safehavenforcats.org - Seeing Eye Inc.
http://www.seeingeye.org - United States Fund for UNICEF
http://www.unicefusa.org
In 2008, InfoSpace donated the $200,000 raised by the program to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA).
Search the Web on www.DoGreatGood.com to help us donate even more money to these and other charitable causes you care about.
- Alley Cat Allies
- Q: Which Charities Will Receive Donations In The Future?
- A: When choosing donation recipients, Do Great Good selects charities that are based in the United States, maintain 501(c)(3) status and are highly-ranked by the Charity Navigator organization.
Do Great Good is an expansion of InfoSpace’s Search & Rescue program on Dogpile, which benefited pets in need; all donations raised in conjunction with the Search & Rescue program will be donated to animal-related charities. Donations raised exclusively through Do Great Good will benefit a variety of charitable causes.
Is there a charity you'd like us to consider? We value your suggestions. Just send us an email with the charity name and a link to their website.
- Q: What Else Can I Do to Help?
- A: Searching the Web on Do Great Good is the best way to help and there are lots of easy ways to make it part of your online routine. Set Do Great Good as your preferred search provider or download the Do Great Good Toolbar for easy searching right form your browser. Make searching automatic by setting Do Great Good as your homepage. You can even email friends inviting them to Do Great Good.
To set Do Great Good as your home page, select Edit from your browser menu, then Preferences. Change the Home Page setting to http://www.dogreatgood.com.To set Do Great Good as your home page, select Tools from your browser menu, then Preferences. Change the Home Page setting to
http://www.dogreatgood.com. - Q: Why Is It So Important to Help Now?
- A: Charities are more in need of funds than ever before, but we know it's tough to give in times like these. Do Great Good allows you to help support causes you care about at no cost to you, simply by searching the Web. This small change in your online routine will make all the difference.
- Q: Aside from Helping Charities, Why Would I want to Search on Do Great Good?
- A: We know the most important thing about searching the Web is finding the info you're looking for quickly. Like all InfoSpace search engines, Do Great Good is powered by metasearch technology and returns the best results from Yahoo!, Bing, and Ask all at once, so you find what you're looking for faster.
Each search engine has its own method of searching and each will return different results. Do Great Good looks at all of them, decides which are most relevant to your search, eliminates duplicates and reveals them to you. In the end, you get a list of results more complete than anywhere else on the Web.
