Ecosia
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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.
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Microsoft Edge
- Google Chrome
- Mozilla Firefox
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Recent News
- Fla published news article about EcosiaEcosia now a search option in Firefox in select European countries
Ecosia is now available in Firefox. Users in Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden, Italy, the Neth...
- Maoholguin published news article about QwantEcosia and Qwant team up to launch an independent search index, challenging Google & Bing
The two prominent European search engines Ecosia and Qwant have announced that they are joining for...
- Maoholguin published news article about Ecosia BrowserEcosia launches new eco-friendly web browser, offering a sustainable alternative to Chrome
The environmentally focused and climate-friendly search engine, Ecosia, has recently launched its n...
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- Updated Jan 7, 2025
- 4.75 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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[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.
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
I love the work that this search engine does to help plant trees, the only problem I see is that its results are still not as good as those of its competition.
It's a search engine that definitely does the job, but lacks in some regards like speed. There also aren't that much smart answers for search queries, like a color picker.
Very good search engine that plants trees! The only bad thing about Ecosia is that it doesn't have a dark theme.