Green Search Engines

Doing some research on the web? Check out some of these great green and socially responsible search engines.

Tree Hugger's article The Best Green Search Engines recommends the following:

1) EcoSearch.

• EcoSearch.org donates 100% of profits to charities named on the "About" page on the site.
• Users can request additional environmental charities be added.
• EcoSearch.org is powered by Google.

2) GoodSearch

• GoodSearch donates 50% of revenue to charities chosen by the users of the site
• GoodSearch searches via Yahoo!.

3) GoodTree

• GoodTree gives 12.5% of revenue to charities chosen by the users of the site.
• GoodTree publishes independent audits and shows the disbursements made, by charity.
• GoodTree is a meta-search engine, searching over Yahoo, Google, Ask Jeeves, and MSN.

Or to help you do comparative green searching, try GoodGuide. An EcoGeek article says, "Drawing from over 650 data sources, GoodGuide is building a database that figures out what is physically healthy, socially healthy, and environmentally healthy, so that people can compare products and make their priority decisions." Give 'em a try!