One of the most exciting developments we've had in the last year was the success of our inaugural Search and Give program where your queries helped to raise more than $250,000 for local schools and non-profits. Over the course of the year the program generated cash donations for more than 20,000 organizations ranging from schools to non-profits such as Doctors Without Borders and ASPCA (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals). Today we've launched the latest version of the program that includes a new, easy-to-use design with enhanced features and more flexible donation capabilities.
Here's how it works
By signing up at http://www.searchandgive.com/, consumers can start donating one cent per search to more than 100,000 schools and 900,000 non-profit organizations worldwide every time they use the Live Search to find whatever interests them. People can also convert tickets they've earned playing games on Microsoft's Live Search Club, at http://www.club.live.com/, into donations for those same schools or charities.
What's new
We need your help
This program is powered by people through word-of-mouth or viral distribution. We're asking for your help to make this program an even greater success by sharing this information with your friends and family and recruiting them to start searching at http://www.searchandgive.com. If one person can earn $60 per year for their favorite charity just by searching the Web with Search and Give, imagine the power of 10 people = $600 per year; imagine the power of 25 people = $1,500 per year; imagine the power of 100 people = $6000 per year. Together, we can make every search count.
In the end, we hope this program will grow exponentially so we can redistribute more of the dollars coming into search to the local schools and charities that YOU are passionate about supporting. We hope you enjoy the new features and stay tuned as we start showcasing some of the best "Search and Give" campaigns you all have created!
Christine Andrews, Product Manager, Search and Give
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This post will sum up my thoughts about Live search for the next year. Terrible way to get people to use Live Search.
Great initiative,
It is really interesting to see how quick people can get organized and reach other people so quickly.
Great idea but I am afraid to recommend Live Search to anyone before the results are close to other search engine's relevancy for fear that it turns them off Live forever. Does it help relevancy when you have additional searches? Is that why the other search engines are so much better or does it have more to do with the algorithms? Please respond Live Search Team - I am interested in knowing.
Thanks.
Thats a great thing microsoft is doing
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This is great! Very awesome I love it
why in the world does this not link to overall search? i am not coming to this page to search every time. needs to be integrated into every method of using live.
but, the idea is great.
The Live Search team kicked off their Search and Give campaign yesterday. Jeremy brought it to my attention
Does MSN Live provide a widget or HTML snippet to add a Search and Give search box to your website? I'm interested in promoting the service by hosting a Search and Give box on my own site and then allowing visitors to my site to use the search box as well.
Great. I tried it. You should open this feature to abroad countries. It would be very successful in France.
Great initiative. Whatever form of donation is good
This is great. The same time we were talking to MS Live folks at SMX West about this, here it is being released. Brilliant!
I have used this and it works great! thanks for offering
Why can't I search the list of schools and non-profit organizations BEFORE signing in. I'm not going to give you my contact info unless it's worth it!
