As a former school teacher, I can personally attest to the need for improvement in America's public schools. Today's website recommendation is aiming to do just that - put their money toward something we can all get behind - improvement of the country's education system.CatchTomorrow.com is a search site that promises to give 50% of the revenue they generate to your school system of choice. That's right - you indicate where you live or what system you're interested in helping and they give 50% of their revenue to those school systems. Given that search engines generate over $8 BILLION per year in ad revenue, that's not some small chunk of change.
CatchTomorrow.com also has the ability to act as your internet homepage. You can set the page up to have all kinds of different tools on it - check your email from your homepage, search dictionary.com from your homepage, get local weather, etc. HERE is the link to tell you about how the page works, how to set it up (if you want to use it for your homepage), etc. Even cooler - if you only want to search and don't care about setting up a homepage for yourself, you can head over to CatchTomorrow.org - the same site but with only the search functionality.
I know we all go to Google for every search we do - but maybe if enough of us start using this site instead, we can actually do something positive for our educational system. Give it a try!
2 comments:
That sounds like a great idea, and I checked it out. However, it looks like you only generate revenue for them and the schools if you click one of their ads:
"Whenever a visitor clicks on one of these ads we donate 50% of our revenue generated from that ad click to fund your school district of choice…"
I never click ads though. If they actually got money for displaying ads (not just click-throughs), I'd probably use it.
That's true - but you don't have to be the visitor to click the ad. Whenever any visitor clicks their ads, they generate revenue and that revenue goes to the school systems that their users have indicated. That, at least, is how I read it.
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