Ecosia – A search engine that plants trees

Re:Ecosia – A search engine that plants trees by sixti60 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @07:13AM (#25713926)

I am always surprised when (be it greenwashing or not) companies call themselves "search engine" when in fact ... they actually aren't a search "engine".

They don't have any indexing/searching technology, they just re-use another search technology in white-label.

We can criticize Google for many things, but at least those guys really built a technology, from scratch.

TL;DR: Calling Ecosia a search engine is like calling yourself a "restaurant" when all you're actually doing is reheating factory-prepared meals.

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Re:Ecosia – A search engine that plants trees by reaperducer on Sunday January 10, 2021 @09:17AM (#25714791)

Calling Ecosia a search engine is like calling yourself a "restaurant" when all you're actually doing is reheating factory-prepared meals.

You might be surprised how many restaurants do this. Even in the days before ghost kitchens.

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Re:Ecosia – A search engine that plants trees by Kiro on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:28PM (#25716985)

So DDG is not a search engine either?

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