Normal people are almost always going to take the path of least resistance, even if making a change is as simple as pressing a few buttons. While the change is as simple as switching to Ecosia, I honestly feel like a lot of people would not even want to deal with burden of switching. Few people know about Ecosia and getting people to actively use Ecosia may prove to be difficult. Unfortunately, as good as Ecosia’s concept is, I simply do not know how the search engine will compete with Google. In many ways you are helping the Earth with little to no effort. The whole concept is very appealing from an environmental standpoint. I first learned about Ecosia in my supply chain procurement class. 2019, This entry was posted in Uncategorized by acw5507. “An Unbiased Review of Ecosia.” Path Around The World, The Nomad’s Guide to Earth, 6 Mar. Who doesn’t love saving the planet with almost no effort? It’s even available as a browser extension for Safari and Chrome so that it can be your default search engine. After reading this review of its legitimacy, I plan to utilize it for my searches. This is how Ecosia plants so many trees- ad revenue.Īll in all, Ecosia seems like a really good thing. Just like Google and other search engine giants. There is one article out there that is denounces Ecosia because it “takes your search information and uses it for ads”. So you can essentially search for something, get the benefit of contributing positively to the environment, but still get all of the perks of Google and other sites. They now have shortcut tags you can use for external searches, such as #g for a Google result. What’s interesting though is that they have implemented a way to overcome any of those shortcomings compared to Google: tags. However, the interface is sleek (think a less cluttered Google) and they have good image and news results. It doesn’t have any of the frills that Google has, such as the bios that you get when searching people or the definitions or conversions. Well, is Ecosia actually a good search engine? The answer here is kind of interesting. They also send profits to various tree projects around the world. It is worth noting that this is self reported due to Ecosia being a private company without investors, so we have to trust what’s there. According to their financial reports, the 80% of profits that they claim do go toward planting trees. Does Ecosia plant as many trees as it claims to? And even if it does, does it get the job done as a search engine? Is anything about this legit? After reading through “An Unbiased Review of Ecosia” by Nick Hastreiter, I’m here to answer these questions.įirst of all, does Ecosia really plant so many trees? Well, yes, it seems so. However, I soon began to ask myself questions. Upon seeing the ad, I was excited! The whole thing sounded awesome. The claim? Ecosia is an ethical search engine that uses its generated ad revenue to plant trees around the world. It was for a search engine called Ecosia. A couple of days ago I was watching some videos on Youtube, as I often do, and an ad caught my attention.
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