Ecosia
Eco-focused search engine donating most profits to reforestation, with funding from search ads and online shopping, supporting millions of trees planted, transparency, and mobile app access for users to contribute to climate action through daily searches.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
EUPlatforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- HUAWEI AppGallery
- iPad
- Microsoft Edge
- Google Chrome
- Mozilla Firefox
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Customizable
- Lightweight
Features
- Sustainably hosted
- Support environment variables
- No registration required
- No Tracking
- Dark Mode
- Browser extension
- Sustainability
- No filter bubble
- Full-Text Search
- Zero-click info
- Built-in translation
- Safari extension
- Instant Answers
- Prevent telemetry
- Video search
- Meta-Search
- Secure Chat
- Integrated Search
- Ecological
Tags
- Anonymity
- Firefox Extension
- Search Engine
- Security & Privacy
- ai-search-engine
Ecosia News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about Ecosia
Non-profit & eco-friendly search engine Ecosia brings AI‑powered overviews and chat searchEcosia, the search engine funding global reforestation, is rolling out two new features along with ...
- POX published news article about Staan
Ecosia & Qwant launch search index Staan to bolster EU digital sovereignty & independenceEcosia has started delivering search results using its new European-based search index, giving Ecos...
- Fla published news article about Ecosia
Ecosia now a search option in Firefox in select European countriesEcosia is now available in Firefox. Users in Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden, Italy, the Neth...
Recent activities
- 01z0 reviewed Ecosia
been a Ecosia user for a long while and also pushed my job to set them as default page for searching and browsing but now that they chose AI in their "environment friendly" search tool.. thats just like the German "tierwohllabel" on steaks in the butchers market. Sheer irony. On the one side we look for tools allowing us to disable AI so that we only use it explicitly when really really needed (hi Copilot, hello google gemini, how's it going?) and on the other hand, the good guy simply adds...
- Danilo_Venom updated Ecosia
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What is Ecosia?
Ecosia is a green search engine that donates at least 80% of its profits from search ad revenue and online shopping to a reforestation program, currently in Burkina Faso. In November 2015 Ecosia celebrated 3 million planted trees and $5 Million donated for the environment. Ecosia is also available on mobile, find the app in the Google Play Store or the iOS App Store.
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Ecosia information
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Ecosia GmbH Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Rating
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5 news article related to EcosiaSupported Languages
- English
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Arabic
- Aragonese
- Armenian
- Azerbaijani
- Basque
- Bengali
- Bosnian
- Breton
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- Updated
- 4.72 avg rating
Comments and Reviews
Tl;dr: Ecosia is a good search engine which is very transparent and FUNDS environment NGOs
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Cons:
[Edited by JustanotherMalaysian, September 18]
After using it for a while now, I want to update this review as there are more cons that I've found with the search engine (but not really enough to change my ratings:
Whilst it is very committed to it's environmental cause which is a huge appeal for many, I have my doubts it wants to protect your privacy and be not like Big Tech since there's a huge slew of evidence that it has clear ties to it. Yes, tracking is minimal, but it's a clear mirror for Microsoft's invasive Bing engine as it retrieves the exact same results from it, and it's data retrieval coming from several Microsoft and Bing domains based on uBlockOrigin filters. Microsoft even has a stake in some of the revenue that Ecosia makes, and data like IP addresses and search terms used in Ecosia are even forwarded off to either Microsoft and Google. It has also been hosted on various invasive cloud service providers, from Amazon Web Services to now Cloudflare.
been a Ecosia user for a long while and also pushed my job to set them as default page for searching and browsing but now that they chose AI in their "environment friendly" search tool.. thats just like the German "tierwohllabel" on steaks in the butchers market. Sheer irony. On the one side we look for tools allowing us to disable AI so that we only use it explicitly when really really needed (hi Copilot, hello google gemini, how's it going?) and on the other hand, the good guy simply adds this as a "feature" ? you DO know people type in the weirdest questions in search engines just because it will spit out some results ? and you choose to set ai features for default browsing ? in an "supposed to be " eco-friendly tool ? I don't see how this sould be working. Please show us that you have Ecosia fully solar powered and that the energy caused by AI goes to house-heating for the city next to your server locations - then i'll come back with 5 stars and install you on all my customers browsers. But until then, I cannot use this or recommend this as an "alternative " to anyone, sadly.
I use it as my everyday driver and its cool, but i don't like that the search results are from bing (or google?). They have announced that they will make an own search index and thats nice. Hopefully it will get good
Slightly better results than Google Search these days, and slightly more private than using Google or Bing directly, though privacy isn't their primary focus. I appreciate the company's commitment to sustainability!
The stuff about protecting enviroment is a good idea. But if we talk about privacy, judging by their policy and DuckDuckGo's, the second one is more private. At least I was confused about mentioning Google as Ecosia's partner. Moreover, they all provide quite same results. So, using it is up yo you.
Pulls DuSantis stories out of it's budty for me