# Search engine to donate 80% of profits to charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2021/11/04/search-engine-to-donate-80-of-profits-to-charities/
- Published: 2021-11-04T12:10:15+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Ask.moe is a new search engine that aims to donate 80% of its profits to charities
and good causes.**

The Europe-based company says that its goal “is to build useful and profitable services
for which we can donate 80% of our profits to other non-profit organisations and
charities with a proven track-record.”

The site uses Google’s Custom Search Engine, which is available for free in return
for Google’s ads being displayed.

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It has also partnered with companies such as NordVPN and Gandi which provide affiliate
links, contributing to Ask.Moe’s income. The company is also accepting donations
in its start-up phase.

** SEE ALSO: [Dogs Trust raises over £10,000 with ClickNow search engine](https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/06/26/dogs-trust-raises-over-10000-clicknow-search-engine/)(
26 June 2006)**

After donating 80% of profits, the company states that “the remaining 20% will 
be put aside for a rainy day”.

## Charity beneficiaries?

At launch [Ask.Moe](https://ask.moe/) will donate to organisations and charities“
such as GiveDirectly, All Hands and Hearts, etc”. It also plans to let users decide
which charities and nonprofit organisations should receive donations.

In addition to offering web and image search, the company is attempting to stand
out from other search engines by highlighting certain types of search such as domain
names, currency conversion, a calculator, and a code search for developers.

The company also offers an API, enabling its content to be used and shared by others.

Ask.moe is also committed to user privacy, so it does highlight the fact that, by
using Google’s data, Google does get to process much of the search activity. But
Ask.moe itself sets out to store and process a minimal amount of personal data on
its servers.

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