GoodSearch generates revenue for MHS

by Zoe McCracken

Good Search is a search engine that donates a penny to Milpitas High School with every search, said Principal Ken Schlaff. It is a great way to raise money for the school with minimal effort put in, said Schlaff.

To use the site, students choose Milpitas High School as the charity and type what they want to search for in the text bar, Teacher Michael Bautista said. However, the site does have some restrictions in regards to the search engine.

All searches must fall under the “honest” search category in order for the school to receive a penny. “An honest search is one where you don’t search random things,” Bautista said, “When you keep searching random things, [goodsearch.com] blocks your search.”

Good Search has already benefited Milpitas High School with the Digital Business Academy alone, Bautista said. With only those students, 10,000 searches have been made raising the school $100.

If goodsearch.com were to be spread to the whole school, the money raised for Milpitas High School would become even greater. “Good Search’s potential is unbelievable,” Bautista said, “People are the key.”

If every student were to make ten searches on goodsearch.com, the school would make more than $300 that day alone, Bautista said. If all the students were to continue this for an additional 185 school days, then this value would go up to $55,000.
Milpitas High School is not the first to use this site, which Bautista heard about at a PTA meeting. “Some schools make a couple hundred dollars off of Good Search a month,” Schlaff said.

Off of this yahoo based search engine is another site, goodshop.com. Much like its sister site, Good Shop benefits the school with every use, but it can raise even larger sums of money.

Goodsearch.com is a site that is linked to hundreds of shopping sites, including retailers such as Target and Amazon.com. With every purchase made through the site, Milpitas High School would be donated a portion of the cost. This percentage depends on the retailer, Bautista said.

Students who regularly use goodsearch like it for not only its benefit to the school, but how it’s easy to use. “I like how it’s a large search engine,” Junior Kevin Castro said, “It’s just like Yahoo.”