Ecosia is a search engine that aggregates search results from multiple other search engines. The ad revenue from our searches funds the planting of trees worldwide. With over 200 million trees planted so far, Ecosia have learned to be fully transparent about their projects, and financials which are available right on that website. Set it as your default search engine, and start planting trees. They also recently released a Chromium based browser if that’s your thing - TechCrunch article for reference.
They make less money, if more people use it with ad blocker, since they have to pay Microsoft for search results but in turn get most of ad revenue (ads need to be clicked)
I guess most people here use ad blocker
I used them for years.
Kagi search results have been much better for me so I recently switched.
After switching to Kagi, I see no reason to return to an ad-supported search engine.
they’ve added an LLM chatbot recently, so I’m sure the energy required to run the queries will offset all the trees they’ve planted so far in about 4 days.
I cannot speak to this search provider however we know that tree planting alone isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Especially huge projects.
I’ve read the US has more trees today than 200 years ago.
Sorry, no source, it’s been probably 20 years since I read it in a science mag.
Just looking at pics from the US west back then vs today is pretty staggering.
And the forest service has prevented fires from containing forests for going on 100 years… A problem in its own right (is a major cause of the larger wildfires we see today, which they we warned about in the 80’s by one of their lead researchers).
The ad revenue from our searches funds the planting of trees worldwide.
I call that BS. As Mr Oliver once explained, if all companies were to plant the trees they promise, this planet wouldn’t be enough for so many trees.
That assumes all the trees survive. A lot of them apparently don’t.
No such assumption is made. Ecosia is clear when an entire project fails, and takes into account tree survival rates when they claim to have planted over 200 million trees. It’s all clarified on their website. Regardless of all of that, they take all ad-revenue to reforest and I’d say that’s a better deal than Google or MS.
Didn’t they get found out for being a bunch of frauds?
Quote and sauce or it did not happen …
Fair words make me look to my purse (English proverb).
Ecosia is just another way to greenwashing a bussiness
They’re a non-profit, they plant trees, and they’re carbon negative. So what are they green-washing?
Better to stop planting trees altogether then?
