Google promotes online donations to Asian floods disaster appeals
Howard Lake | 29 December 2004 | News
Google.com and Google.co.uk have unusually featured a link on their front pages to highlight “ways to help with tsunami relief.”
The prominent text links to a page which links to Google’s and other organisations’ news coverage of the disaster, together with links to seven sites which accept online donations for the relief efforts of organisations involved. The UK’s Disaster Emergency Committee’s emergency appeal is not listed.
Under the headline ‘Tsunami Relief’ Google state: “below are a few sites already set up to provide information and handle donations for victims throughout the region. Our thoughts are with everyone who has been affected.”
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