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The economic downturn means charities across the country areexpected to receive declining contributions this holidayseason.
|To prevent this, Yahoo and more than 60,000 nonprofits havepartnered with www.goodsearch.com, a search engine, and www.goodshop.com, an online shoppingmall, to enable supports to generate donations by searching theInternet and shopping online.
GoodShop offers more than 700 top retailers, including Target,Apple, Macy's, Best Buy, Barnes & Noble and Orbitz. Prices arethe same as through the retailer directly, but as much as 37percent of the purchase price is donated to the user'scharity.
Similarly, with every search conducted on GoodSearch, one penny isdonated to the user's charity. It's the same as other searchengines, but pennies add up with each search. If 500 people searchfour times a day, those searches raise $600 in one month.
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