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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.

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License model

  • FreeProprietary

Platforms

  • Online
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Android Tablet
  • Windows Phone
  • iPad
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Google Chrome
  • Mozilla Firefox
4.1 / 5 Avg rating (13)
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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Customizable

Features

  1.  Sustainably hosted
  2.  Support environment variables
  3.  No Tracking
  4.  Dark Mode
  5.  No registration required
  6.  Browser extension
  7.  No filter bubble
  8.  Full-Text Search
  9.  Sustainability
  10.  Secure Chat
  11.  Integrated Search
  12.  Meta-Search
  13.  Instant Answers
  14.  Safari extension
  15.  Zero-click info
  16.  Built-in translation
  17.  Prevent telemetry
  18.  Video search

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  • FelschR and PredatorQ liked Ecosia
    about 11 hours ago
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    9 days ago
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  • panoptes does not think No filter bubble is a important feature of Ecosia
    10 days ago
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Comments and Reviews

   
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JustanotherMalaysian
  
Top positive commentMar 18, 2020

Tl;dr: Ecosia is a good search engine which is very transparent and FUNDS environment NGOs

Pros:

  1. It's search results are good enough for me to stop using Qwant and Google
  2. It funds NGOs around the world which are planting trees and others
  3. It is REALLY TRANSPARENT with what they do with the money they earn (They have a blog which shows a demographic of their finances and where they are goin
  4. It is clean

Cons:

  1. No appearance customisation (I doubt any search engine has this anyway so this can be shrugged off)

[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:

  1. Search results can be slow sometimes. The results are a bit unreliable compared to other search engines (which isn't really a surprise). This might turn off some people who want their results quick.
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MapleMeeps
  
Top negative commentMay 29, 2024

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.

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Glussa
  
ReviewApr 19, 2024

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.

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TBayAreaPat
  
Negative commentNov 5, 2023

Pulls DuSantis stories out of it's budty for me

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dirtydan
  
Positive commentDec 16, 2022

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.

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Realmy
  
ReviewSep 17, 2022

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.

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braky
  
Positive commentAug 13, 2019

Very good search engine that plants trees! The only bad thing about Ecosia is that it doesn't have a dark theme.

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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

  • Developed by

    Ecosia GmbH
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.1 (13 ratings)
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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Afrikaans
    • Albanian
    • Arabic
    • Aragonese
    • Armenian
    • Azerbaijani
    • Basque
    • Bengali
    • Bosnian
    • Breton
    • Bulgarian
    • Burmese
    • Khmer
    • Catalan; Valencian
    • Corsican
    • Croatian
    • Czech
    • Danish
    • Dutch
    • Esperanto
    • Finnish
    • French
    • Scottish Gaelic; Gaelic
    • Galician
    • Georgian
    • German
    • Greek
    • Gujarati
    • Hebrew
    • Hindi
    • Hungarian
    • Icelandic
    • Indonesian
    • Interlingua
    • Irish
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Javanese
    • Kannada
    • Kazakh
    • Korean
    • Lao
    • Latvian
    • Lithuanian
    • Malay
    • Malayalam
    • Marathi
    • Nepali
    • Norwegian Bokmål
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    • Occitan
    • Oriya
    • Persian
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Panjabi, Punjabi
    • Romansh
    • Romanian
    • Russian
    • Chinese
    • Sinhala, Sinhalese
    • Slovak
    • Slovene
    • Spanish
    • Sundanese
    • Swedish
    • Tamil
    • Telugu
    • Thai
    • Tibetan Standard, Tibetan, Central
    • Turkish
    • Ukrainian
    • Urdu
    • Uzbek
    • Vietnamese
    • Welsh

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Ecosia was added to AlternativeTo by mer30hamid on Sep 25, 2011 and this page was last updated Feb 6, 2025.