# Are you wasting your searches?

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/12/12/are-you-wasting-your-searches/
- Published: 2006-12-12T15:35:14+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**There has been a quiet revolution happening this year. 33,000 people have opted
to use a new search engine, www.everyclick.com. Everyclick is a new breed of search
engine that enables you to search the web and at the same time benefit the charity
of your choice for free. The number of people using it is increasing by 40% a month.**

To date everyclick’s small and fast growing user base has already generated over
£100,000 for charity. The money is a result of users clicking on paid content and
viewing adverts that are included within the search page. This money has been generated
without any cost to the user or the benefiting charities.
Does this use of search
herald a new era where we are also beginning to direct our internet searches to 
benefit our favorite good cause? It seems a logical progression in a time when we
are all becoming ever conscious of recycling our household waste and measuring our
carbon footprint.

Research suggests that 40 million people in the UK use a search engine on a daily
basis, 76% of those searches go through Google and who earned a total of $9.4bn 
from search this year. Everyclick.com’s 33,000 users have each been able to select
to support any one of 170,000 charities. With just these users having raised over
£100,000, it is clear to see that with mainstream adoption everyclick.com has the
potential to raise a phenomenal amount of money for charity.

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Polly Gowers, managing director said “We are all more aware of our social responsibilities
these days. We hope to see our new way of searching becoming a mainstream way to
search the web, as it has the potential to be an incredibly powerful fundraising
tool for any charity”.

Reports suggest that everyclick.com is the UK’s fastest growing search engine and
one of the busiest charity websites.

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Images and all press releases are available for download athttp://www.everyclick.
com/uk/myeveryclick/press-resourceswww.everyclick.com – notes for editorseveryclick.
com is a search engine with a difference – we give 50% of our revenue to charity
and have delivered more than 15 million searches.Launched in June 2005, through 
a groundbreaking agreement with CAF everyclick.com offers users the ability to support
any of the 170, 000 UK charities. .Everyclick.com is an example of 21st century 
giving – a philanthropic enterprise from which everyone benefits. It offers:• The
site is free to join and free to use.• Charities – a new and sustainable fundraising
opportunity that costs them nothing to promote or implement.• Users – a way of raising
funds for their favourite charity, at no cost to themselves, by doing something 
that 40 million people do each day in the UK – searching the web.• Companies – a
chance to enhance their brand reputation by encouraging their staff to use everyclick.
com and raise funds for the good causes they support.Everyclick.com is a finalist
in the following business awards; The Telegraph-Jaeger LeCoultre Business Personality
of the Year, HSBC Start-Up Awards, British Business Awards (two categories) and 
The Netimperative Digital Awards – Hottest New Start Up.

 * **[New Chief Operating Officer at Everyclick](https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/10/25/new-chief-operating-officer-everyclick/)**(
   25 October 2007)
 * **[Fundraising, philanthropy and charities: what Google autocomplete suggests](https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/10/10/fundraising-philanthropy-charities-google-autocomplete-suggests/)**(
   10 October 2014)
 * **[WhaleSlide launches upgraded version of philanthropic search engine](https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/04/18/whaleslide-launches-upgraded-version-philanthropic-search-engine/)**(
   18 April 2017)
