Ecosia - The Platform Which Will Plant Trees For You

You Can Plant Trees With The Help Of Your Smartphone!!

You can plant trees with the help of your smartphone from home!

Ecosia is a search engine based in Berlin Germany. It donates 80% of its profits to non-profit organizations that focus on reforestation. It considers itself a social business, is CO2-negative and claims to support full financial transparency and protect the privacy of its users. Ecosia is also B Lab certified.

As of May 2021, the company claims to have planted over 127 million trees since its inception.

It's very simple to do this. You want to change your google home page to Ecosia. And when you use ecosia to search, they use the ad revenue which is generated by your search. Approximately 45 searches will give you 1 tree planted. It means that when you search any topic on ecosia for at least 45 times this will generate ad revenue to ecosia sufficient to plant 1 tree. We think that we can't do anything from home but we can make a small change in our lifestyle and plant a tree and even can change the world by this small step taken by us.

Ecosia is a search engine originally provided a combination of search results from Yahoo! and technologies from Bing and Wikipedia. Ads were delivered by Yahoo! as part of the revenue sharing agreement with the company.

Ecosia's search results are now provided by Bing and enhanced by the company's own algorithms. It is currently available as a web browser or mobile app and Android and IOS devices, as well as on PCs and Macs.

In 2018, Ecosia committed to becoming a privacy-freindly search engine. Searches are encrypted and not stored permanently, and data is not sold to third-party advertisers. The company states in its privacy policy that it does not create personal profiles based on search history, nor does it use external tracking tools like Google Analytics.

Ecosia shows advertisements next to its search results and is paid by partners every time a user is directed to an advertiser via a sponsored link. A single search on Ecosia raises approximately half a Euro cent (0.005 EUR) on average, according to Ecosia's FAQ, taking 0.22 euro and as of July 2020, or 0.75 seconds to plant a tree.

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