Neowin News Feed for: Ecosia

The Ecosia search engine has just come up with a replacement for its tree counter

Paul Hill — Thu, 15 May 2025 09:10:01 +0000

Ecosia, a green search engine that invests in renewable energy and tree planting, has launched a new impact tracker following the retirement of its old tree counter last year. Read more...

Ecosia and Qwant partner to develop European search index

Paul Hill — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 10:08:01 +0000

Ecosia and Qwant are starting a joint venture to develop a new search index that will give Europe more digital sovereignty. Read more...

Ecosia launches its web browser with 'green' features

Aditya Tiwari — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:16:01 +0000

Ecosia, the maker of the tree-planting search engine, has launched a new web browser. The free browser is now available for download on multiple platforms, including Windows and macOS. Read more...

Ecosia announces results from Tuesday's anti-wildfire search efforts

Paul Hill — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 16:00:01 +0000

Ecosia has announced that Tuesday's search efforts have funded 5,000 new trees in California and an additional 7,500 trees in Byron Bay, Australia, where forests struggle to regenerate naturally. Read more...

Bing-powered Ecosia will plant trees to tackle wildfires in the U.S.

Paul Hill — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 23:00:02 +0000

Ecosia has said that all searches on July 27 will generate revenue that will go to Australia, Brazil, and the U.S. to help tackle wildfires that are being exacerbated by rising global temperatures. Read more...

Ecosia becomes a default search provider in Brave browser

Paul Hill — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 10:54:01 +0000

Ecosia has announced that it's now available as a default search provider in the Brave web browser. This will open the search engine up to Brave's 24 million active users and help to drive traffic. Read more...

Ecosia will fund tree-planting with spend on wooden debit card

Paul Hill — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 14:52:01 +0000

Ecosia has announced that it now partially owns TreeCard, a firm that makes wooden debit cards. The search provider said that purchases with the card will fund its tree-planting efforts worldwide. Read more...

Ecosia search engine approaches 100 million planted trees

Paul Hill — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 03:46:02 +0000

The ethical search engine, Ecosia, has announced that it has almost planted 100 million trees since its launch at the very end of 2009. It should reach the milestone sometime later this week. Read more...

Chrome adds Ecosia as search provider option in 47 countries

Paul Hill — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:12:01 +0000

Ecosia is set to become a default option in the mobile version of Google Chrome. It comes after Ecosia refused to bid to appear on the search provider choice screen across the European Union. Read more...

Ecosia users funded 26,446 trees for Australia yesterday with their web searches

Paul Hill — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 17:30:01 +0000

Ecosia has announced that it funded over 26,000 trees yesterday during its special event to help Australian wildlife recover from the recent bushfires that engulfed parts of the country for weeks. Read more...

Five apps to help you tackle climate change in the 2020s

Paul Hill — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 17:00:01 +0000

In 2018, we were warned we have 12 years left to keep the climate exceeding safe limits. Here's a selection of great apps for Android and iOS that can help you reduce your carbon footprint. Read more...

Firefox Preview on Android now supports custom search engines

Paul Hill — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 16:26:01 +0000

Mozilla now lets you add custom search engines in the nightly version of Firefox Preview for Android. The firm added some pre-defined engines such as Ecosia but also lets you add new ones. Read more...

Search engine Ecosia boosts tree counter speed as usage grows

Paul Hill — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 15:02:01 +0000

The search engine, Ecosia, which focuses on turning ad revenue into trees, has announced that it's tree counter was sped up recently thanks to the number of searches, by users, growing. Read more...

Tech firms back amendment to CCPA for even stronger protections

Paul Hill — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 16:34:01 +0000

Several technology companies have backed a new amendment to California's upcoming privacy laws. The amendment extends protections for end users; it was largely backed by privacy-first firms. Read more...