hintbot is a search engine which donates 50-percent of its revenue to the charities and schools. It's a simple and compelling concept. You use hintbot exactly as you would any other search engine. Because it's powered by Yahoo! and google, you get proven search results. The money hintbot donates to your cause comes from its advertisers — the users and the organizations do not spend a dime!
Our goal is to help as many nonprofits and schools as possible. We want to help fund the great works they are doing. And, as important as the money, hintbot allows people to feel connected to organizations helping to make the world a better place and support them every single day. We believe that "doing good" should be a part of people's everyday lives. Because we donate such a substantial part of our revenue to the organizations, we're not spending a lot on advertising. That's why we need your help in spreading the word! We hope you'll not only use hintbot search as your main search engine from now on, but will also tell your friends, family and co-workers so they, too, can start using hintbot to support their favorite cause!
hintbot believes that:
Size matters because many people use the Internet to find information that is of interest to them, even if it's not popular. Existing technology can't keep up with the increasing volume of Web pages. If a search engine is incapable of indexing the Internet properly how can it hope to provide accurate search results? Imagine if the phone company decided to stop listing infrequently called numbers in the phone book. Maybe no one phones your grandmother much, but if her friend from the old neighborhood wants to get in touch, shouldn't her number be in the book? hintbot lists all the numbers, even the ones that aren't called much. Because one day someone will need that number.
Popularity is useful, but has dominated search results so heavily that it gets harder and harder to find the page you want, especially if your search is a complex one. hintbot respects popular pages and recognizes that for many simple searches, popularity is an easy answer to your question. But for a deeper search, establishing relevancy is more than a numbers game. hintbot prefers to find all the pages with your keyword or phrase and then analyze the rest of the content on those pages. During this analysis we discover that your keywords have different meanings in different contexts. Once we've established the context of the pages, we're in a much better position to help you in your search.
The Internet is information; usually too much. Ten blue links is a simple concept which fails to reflect the huge diversity and variety of information available to you on the Web. hintbot organizes the Internet so you can find the information you want. We separate different ideas from each other so you can choose the one that interests you. We pick images to illustrate the idea behind each page to aid you in your choice. We include roll-over definitions and offer you ideas to refine your search. We can do all this because we believe that information is only useful when it's sorted. hintbot's goal is to guide you towards answers to the questions you're not even sure how to ask.
Privacy is a hot topic these days, and we want you to feel totally comfortable using our service. Because hintbot analyzes Web pages and not click-throughs, we don't need to know your search history and habits. So our privacy policy is very simple: when you search with hintbot, we do not collect any personally identifiable information, period. We have no idea who sends queries: not by name, not by IP address, and not by cookie. Your search history is your business, not ours. We don't need to keep logs of our users' search activity, so we don't.But we do collect number of searches of our registered members