Ecosia Reviews

I do a lot of internet searches for my work and art. I switched recently to Ecosia as my primary search engine. As this is my first month of using Ecosia, I'm occasionally running a search on Google just to see if I can find anything missed. I do find the results often very similar to Google, but not always. Overall I like Ecosia though, and it fits into my mission at The Art of Sustainability of exploring eco art so I'll continue using it. Funding the planting of trees as I do my everyday work just sounds like a win-win. The transparency of posting their monthly donation receipts is pretty impressive. Would love to see more of that practice in the world!

Comparable to Google minus the spying and plus planting trees

Ecosia, the search engine that plants trees. I don't know if they actually plant trees, I'm pretty sure they don't because they amount of trees they say they plant is a little too high to be believable. First of all, the results of searches are usually always not what you looking for, or looking for definitions is hard. The only thing I do like is the idea of planting trees from searching.

There’s very little difference between my search results on this vs Google browser. Google has enough of my business, might as well spread the wealth and save the world while I do.

it is no different than Google, but the logo.

It is legit. First of all, to get a .org, there is not much you have to do. You have to prove yourself worthy enough to get it only once, not consistently. And you can only get .org if what your doing benefits the US. So how is Ecosia real? Ecosia works like this;

Ecosia uses it's profits and sends R of them to other organizations in different countries. The other H is used for other things, such as advertising and thing like that.

If you would like to double check if Ecosia go to snopes.

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Is it real I really like Google more but I want to help the Earth. I'm not sure if it's legit or not. Please somebody tell me if is or not.

I started using it 2 days ago and you can literally go and see them if your so sure they're fake, Jacod powers and cole landburg stfu

I love how they give information about where their money goes, produce energy to be CO2 negative and don't sell your data, don't give it to 3rd party tracker and anonymize all searches so that we have a safe searching experience while saving the planet.

It is really fun using Ecosia, I like seeing the number of trees I have planted. I just started using it yesterday and I am already in love.

We need more companies like that! Everybody who is doubting their motives, dig a bit yourself and you will see that this tree planting search engine is legit. E.g. check out their youtube channel for video updates on the progress in Kenia, Ghana, Nicaragua, and Burkina Faso. They also release a financial report every month, so you can see yourself where the money goes. Their concept seems to work, they have a lot to show for after almost 11 years of reforestation all over the world.

It does not matter if Ecosia is planting trees or not. It is a possibility, and it is almost as good as Google, so why not use it just in case? You may be possibly saving our planet, one search at a time.

Ecosia does not let me personalize so that kinda sucks, but hey! Planting trees! It is kinda hard for me to believe that they are really planting trees for EVERY search, but they have to be planting SOME trees or they would be straight up lying. I prefer Google over Ecosia, but I like trees more than that.

SAVE THE PLANET. NOT JUST THE TURTLES.

Ecosia is just a mildly worse version than chrome, and with the flimsy promise of planting trees, you might as well use a different search engine. I don't know if Ecosia is really planting trees like they say it is, which you think would be easy to prove if they really were, so why don't they prove it? I don't know, and so I am moving back to chrome.

There's almost no reason not to use Ecosia.

Sure, you may not get the best results when it comes to things that aren't searched very often, but every search helps plant a tree! Why *not* use it?

It's fine I guess, It's just another way to help us breathe in the future..

I use it both on my PC and phone, and it works like a charm. A great additional way to help the world.

But not all. The algorithm they use is different than google and doesn’t provide the same quality results. In most cases what I’m searching for is popular enough to find what I need and so ecosia works well. It’s in my computer browser and on my phone. Downside you do have to specifically add the app because you can’t set it as a default engine.

Sometimes the results I get aren’t giving me what I need in which case I almost always can find it on google. I rather give my business to a company providing a service to the benefit of the earth. So I use ecosia as much as I can.

Their site is pretty transparent with their financial info available to any who wish to read. They say it’s approx 45 searches to one tree so the counter is # of searches toward tree plantings but it isn't a direct measure of it. Different searches generate various revenue so it’s not a tidy figure to report.

I’m up to 502 searches or about 11 trees.

It’s an easy way to contribute to the environment with almost no trouble for you. Why not?

It helps plant trees which we need for oxygen so it is not a scam. Use it, it helps us stay alive for years to come, so we can breathe

Finding what you search planting trees

=SAVING THE EARTH!!!