Everyclick.com, the search engine that gives half of its revenue to charity has delivered over 5 million searches in under one year.
[UKPRwire, Fri Jun 09 2006] The site was launched in mid June last year and currently supports over 1,150 charities. The service is constantly evolving to give its users a unique experience. Everyclick.com delivers search, news, audio, image and multimedia results as well as the facility to shop with a range of leading online retailers online retailers including Amazon whilst benefiting the charity of your choice.
The top five listed charities have generated an average of £16* per supporter since launch, up from £13.16 last month.
Polly Gowers, Managing Director said: “The last year has been both exciting and challenging, we are delighted with the progress we have made. Our vision is to create a sustainable fundraising facility which enables internet users to benefit their favourite charity whenever they search the web. We are determined to make everyclick.com available to as many people as possible - just imagine how much of a difference it could make if all charity supporters generated an additional £16 for their favourite charity as they searched the web."
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* How we allocate money to charities
everyclick.com, launched in 2005, allocates 50% of its revenue to charity each month. Each listed charity receives a percentage of that revenue equivalent to the proportion of its supporters’ use of everyclick. The revenue generated by everyclick website users that do not select a specific charity will benefit all charities listed, on a pro rata basis. See everyclick.com for further details.
www.everyclick.com Notes to Editors:
• Everyclick.com is the new search engine that has been purpose built to automatically donate 50% of its revenue to charity every month.
• Most people don’t realise that every time they search the web, they’re generating cash. Everyclick.com has been set up to make sure some of this money benefits charity.
• It behaves just like any other search engine, providing full search results, images, news feeds and special features such as Amazon product listings.
• Everyclick.com now has 1,100* participating charities.
• The fact is, if just ten supporters from each of the 167,000 UK registered charities used everyclick.com, over £20 million** could be raised in the first year.
• The money is allocated by intelligent software and is distributed to charities every month by the Charities Aid Foundation.
• www.everyclick.com is an example of ‘21st Century Giving’ which combines the technology of the 21st century with the more altruistic spirit of the age.
• Everyclick.com is predicting that the Top 5 employee sectors could raise up to £60m a year as follows:
Employee Sector Potential amount per year raised via everyclick.com
»Banking (5,230,000) £31,000,000
»Public sector (4,000,000) £24,000,000
*Accountants (550,056) £3,300,336
*Solicitors (1,000,581) £1,000,581
*Marketing (50,000) £300,000
* These figures change on a daily basis, please see everyclick.com for up to date information.
** Based upon everyclick's average user value projections
~ Calculation based on average search engine data, which shows that the average user could potentially generate £6 for charity per year. For example, current Google data shows that the average user raises £1 per month for Google. £100m is based on 17.4m white collar workers donating £6 each via everyclick.com.