Sunmee decided to do something special for her grandpa.
Hi, Mr. Tanneberg. My name is Sunmee Huh. I am a senior at Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, MD. I enjoyed watching your video on GOCASA.ORG website. Thank you for what you are doing.
My grandpa Sam immigrated to the US about 40 years ago with my grandma and my mom (8 years old, then) from South Korea. He has three children and 6 grand children, and I am the oldest grandchild.
One day after school, I saw my grandpa having a difficult time using a popular Internet search engine. So, earlier this year, I created a senior-friendly search engine called Good50, because I thought it was unfair he had gone through so much yet had to struggle with something most people don’t think twice about. The search engine features large font for easy readability and also has a high contrast version for people with low vision. Safe search is always on. Therefore, sites containing explicit content are automatically excluded from web search results. As far as know, Good50 is the ONLY search engine specifically designed for seniors (I may be wrong.).
After the site’s launch in January of this year, the Washington Post featured Good50 and AARP wrote a short story my grandpa and me in April’s bulletin. You can find out more about Good50 at www.good50.com/about.html
I created the site to help our senior citizens and those with disabilities to have an easier time searching the web, as well as to help charities. Now, I am so glad that many people are able to benefit from the site because they know about it. Many organizations such as the Helen Keller International (http://hki.org/get-involved/learn-about-donating/other-ways-to-help/), Lexington Public Library(http://www.lexpublib.org/search-engines), California’s Buena Park Senior Activity Center (http://www.bplegacy.org), Traverse City Senior Center in Michigan (http://www.tcseniorcenter.com/links.html) etc. provides a link on their websites.
Would you please give me a lending hand in spreading Good50 among seniors and older adults? A short information about Good50 in your newsletter would be wonderful. Any help within your reach would be deeply appreciated.
Please let me know if you have any questions, thoughts and comments. It would be very much appreciated. Please feel free to call me at 301-528-4303(h) or e-mail me at sunmee@good50.com.
With His Love,
Sunmee Huh