Eyes of the Cosmic Whale
“…leaving the heavens naked, glistening blue-black, like the belly of some cosmic whale…”Archive for Aidgle
1,000 visits to the blog…and what it really means!
On November 07 I reached my 1,000 visits mark!
It’s actually quite exciting to see the number there… “Total views: 1,000″ … perhaps because I wasn’t really aiming for anything when this blog began it’s even better and more…exciting, I suppose!
But I think there’s somehting that makes this all the better. My Aidgle posts were the ones that brought me the most traffic- until today, my three posts on Aidgle have been visited no less and no more than 449 times. That’s quite a lot!
Now, I’ll do a flashback. It was the eve of one of my history mock exams and because of Facebook I stumbled across Aidgle. The idea was just so good I decided to sacrifice a few minutes (well, maybe more) of sleep, even if not that many people ever came to my blog. Still, it was my grain of sand. My contribution to a worthy cause.
Almost 500 views later, I’m amazed at what taking that time did. My grain of sand did make a difference, even if it was a relatively small one. The moral of the story? (No, not to keep writing about Aidgle XD!) Never think “oh, I won’t make a difference”. Never think that just because you don’t have a popular blog, or because your single signature in a votation or a petition is just one it won’t change the status quo. It takes so little to make a big change, and we lose nothing in the process.
It’s always, always worth a try. So try!
Thank you to all who did check Aidgle, thank you to those who keep coming, thank you just for being here now. Every little view in my blog means a lot and is truly appreciated!
Now let’s go for the 5,000 landmark!
<3 CW
On Aidgle and its growing revenue
The growing popularity of Aidgle, the search engine that donates its revenue to disaster victims, is beginning to show.
Aidgle began less than a month ago, yet by the beginning of this week, over 440 US dollars had been made by the search engine. It might not sound like that much at first sight, but considering that 1 cent is made for every search, it’s quite an achievement.
This amount will be paid to Aidgle’s (genius) creator, Roberto Thais, at the end of the month (Google’s slow in that matter), who will in turn donate it to two organizations who are already taking action in the affected areas of the earthquake in Peru on August 15th.
So far, so good. But the revenue has to increase, for these people’s sakes. So many, many people lost it all while so many more forget of their existence, while in their comfortable homes.
Particularly for those who don’t live in Peru, here’s a chance to make a difference from our comfortable homes.
Hopefully one of these days we’ll hear ”Aidgle, miracle search engine changes lives of hundreds”.
It’s up to us, Aidgle users, to make that happen!
If Aidgle is all about Aid, does that mean Google is all about Goo?
As you can see, I worked out why Aidgle is called Aidgle. I’d been wondering, actually, why someone might pick a name that doesn’t roll off the tongue and essentially means nothing. At some point, though, inspiration struck me and I just knew it was because Aidgle is all about Aid. Which leads to the question: is Google all about Goo?
And because I was very bored and procrastinating (surprise surprise!) and searching for inspiration to write the editorial for the Journalism Interhouse, I decided to search the internet (using Aidgle, needless to say) and the results were:
sludge: any thick messy substance
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
This is where I should insert a witty statement on how Google really is gooey. Read the rest of this entry »
Aidgle: better than Google!
Aidgle is a search engine with a different approach: revenue goes to relief efforts in disaster locations around the world. It works just as well as Google, because it’s a custom version of the Google Search Engine, but the fact that it helps people in need makes it even better.
Right now, they money generated is being sent to Peru, where there was an earthquake on August 15th (I plan to make a blog post about my memoirs on that day, too…some other time). It was of 7.9 magnitude, killed over 500 people and left more than 85,000 without a home. These people are hungry, and homeless, and doing their best to survive the harsh winter. Aidgle is directing the money in rebuilding homes in the most affected areas: Pisco, Ica and Chincha.
Needless to say any help is welcome. And now the world has the chance to keep helping just by using a search engine! It couldn’t be easier!
I’m totally going to use Aidgle from now on.
The big question is: Will you?
