Ecosia – A search engine that plants trees

Re:Ecosia – A search engine that plants trees by indysigners on Sunday January 10, 2021 @06:26AM (#25713590)

I was using Ecosia for a number of weeks and did achieve some 80 planted trees over the course of that period.

However, I eventually was so frustrated over the poor search results that I did move back to DDG.

Ecosia‘s intentions might be noble and worth supporting, but I cannot really follow how one can stay with them when the overall experience is so poor.

I don’t even mind some possible privacy issues as noted above but it all comes down to being at least comparably good to Google and DDG. Which is sadly not the case with Ecosia.

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Re:Ecosia – A search engine that plants trees by CodeGlitch on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:47PM (#25717219)

Wait, aren't DDG and Ecosia using the same search engine under the hood (bing)?

How would you be getting different results from them?

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