[qutebrowser] qutebrowser search partnership with Ecosia?

Whiskers catwheezel at operamail.com
Mon Jul 25 19:02:44 CEST 2016


On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 18:31:03 +0200 Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I got contacted by the Ecosia search engine a few days ago:
>https://www.ecosia.org/
>
>They seem to get their results via Bing mostly (DuckDuckGo gets them
>from Yahoo and in some regions Yandex/Bing) and apparently use (part
>of) their ad income to plant trees:
>https://info.ecosia.org/what

[...]

>On the other hand, while Ecosia seems quite cool, it seems to lack
>some functionality (like instant answers) compared to duckduckgo.
>
>What do you think?
>
>Florian

I generally prefer 'Ixquick' (now calling itself 'StartPage' as well)
which apparently gets it's search results from Google.

But I'm all in favour of variety and I'd give 'Ecosia' a go if it might
help qutebrowser.  I do like trees  :))

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