![]() Maybe this distinction is a bit pedantic, though! Brandon L. I find this to be a compelling narrative: a for-profit company that has committed to social good and using profits only to improve the product. They have simply made it a legally impossible for them to distribute profits to shareholders or to sell the company. ![]() I had a minor correction – you framed Ecosia as a “not-for-profit” but from my knowledge they’re actually a for-profit. Hi Seth, having used Ecosia as my default for a while but not knowing many other people who use it, I’m pleasantly surprised to see you post about it! In my experience I like Ecosia’s results almost always, but when I don’t I’m grateful for the feature to search Google instead by simply adding #g to the search query. People are fascinating, aren’t we? It turns out that they’re the same search engine. I switched, but the results I found weren’t as good as DuckDuckGo so I switched back. Microsoft makes money from the ads you see, but they don’t get access to your data. But they don’t have to pay thousands of people to run a search engine. So, Ecosia takes the commission Microsoft pays them and uses it to plant trees. You.com is an AI-powered search engine founded by Richard Socher, a prominent natural language processing (NLP) researcher and former chief scientist of Salesforce. Think of them as an environmental Google, Bing or Yahoo, where you can access. What does this have to do with Microsoft?īuilding and maintaining a search engine is really expensive and hard. is an online search engine that plants trees for the searches you make. You search to see if that was, as you suspected, Bill Hader doing the voice. She’s an ad copywriter and does hundreds of searches a day, and swears by it. Ecosia is a search engine that donates the bulk of its expendable funds to tree-planting organizations around the globe. Ecosia is a web search engine based in Germany, which donates 80 of its surplus income to non-profit organizations that focus on reforestation and. Fifty-two people in total, including independent contractors. Now that it appears to be quite appealing to plant trees for every web search, let’s take a closer look at Ecosia: Three million metric tons of CO2 have been removed from the atmosphere. My spouse and I switched to Ecosia almost three years ago and haven’t looked back. The search engine Ecosia plants a tree each time a user uses it. In this instance, the search engine and the browser are one. Yes, you simply install their app and it replaces your entire browser. ![]() I had no idea about Ecosia and now being able to contribute to making a difference while surfing the internet, something I do everyday, is a small and beautiful thing you have empowered me (and us) to do. My post about switching search engines was the most popular of 2022.Īnd some folks had comments and questions.
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