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A new search engine called Ecosia claims to be the world’s most environmentally friendly search site.
Ecosia points out that the big search giants, such as Google with its large server networks, cause an inordinate amount of CO2 emissions.
Apparently according to figures from some “experts”, whoever they may be, a single Google search causes the same level of emissions as a light bulb running for an hour.
So now you’ll feel really guilty when you mis-type a query and have to immediately search again.
Ecosia’s solution is simple. It donates 80% of its income to save the Amazon rainforests, offsetting any damage caused, and it also runs its servers on green electricity.
Every search performed on Ecosia rather than one of the normal search engines saves two square meters of rainforest, apparently.
The search engine is backed by Yahoo, Bing and the WWF (the world’s leading environmental organisation, not the wrestling people). The site is launching today, to coincide with the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference.
Ecosia does not like Google because Google banned their websites from Google for fraud (Forestle was one of them).
Their energy numbers for Google are completely made up.
They also claim to be the greenest search engine by donating 80% of the money but they run Forestle which claims to donate 90% of the money (wouldn’t this be greener if it donates more money?).
They have a lot of other websites like Znout claiming to do all sorts of things for the environment. All German based green sites that I have found on the internet are created by the same guy and they all make the wildest claims regarding on how good they are and the others are evil.