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May 4, 2007
You Ripple To Save The World
Here's a cool fresh idea, a web 2.0 web site called ripple designed to fight poverty. How so? Advertisers pay to have their ads on ripple. Web surfers click on any one of these ads and money automatically gets donated to fight poverty. The advertisers get the click-thru rate they want and web surfers have done something charitable. It's a win-win situation.
It's a little difficult to understand unless you try it yourself. Don't worry, just know no matter what you click on, you're doing some good.
via Notcot
Posted by tranism at 6:02 PM | Permalink
Comments
Clicked 'em all ;)
And I'm gonna put this on my blogs!!
[Z]
Posted by: [Z] at May 5, 2007 3:32 AM
Thanks for the link Tranititator.
We really appreciate it!
Posted by: Matt Tilleard at May 5, 2007 7:02 AM
A similar site was floated long back ... its http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=1
Posted by: Laina at May 11, 2007 4:06 AM
An update on Ripple: Unfortunately, Ripple does not earn any money from Google, nor do they currently donate any money per search.
This is from the Ripple blog - http://blog.ripple.org/ - June 11th, 2007
"Ripple Search has encountered a couple of issues and ads are no longer appearing on the Google search results page - unfortunately this means that ripple Search is not presently earning money for our charities."
Posted by: McC at June 25, 2007 7:58 PM
We've had a couple of technical difficulties.
But ripple search will commence functioning by the end of this week.
Posted by: Matt at June 25, 2007 8:15 PM
We're back!!!!
Just a quick update to let you know that ripple search has been fully functional again since last friday.
McC, I've noticed that you've hit a lot of blogs to tell people about our tech issues. If you come across this post I'd appreciate it if you could post updates that the search is functional again.
Posted by: Matt at July 3, 2007 2:48 AM
We're back. ripple search generates money again!
Posted by: Matt at July 3, 2007 4:18 PM