[qutebrowser] qutebrowser search partnership with Ecosia?

[benh]

+1 for set default to what ever Florian wants and we can change as needed

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 2:21 AM Brent Moran <blm at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

> Set any defaults you like; your user base is plenty competent to change
> them (and will probably stay that way, given the nature of the browser
> :) ).  Of course, that may mean the income from setting such a default
> will be severely diminished.  I guess if no one uses it, you can always
> change it back (or to something else) later.
>
> Brent
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 06:31:03PM +0200, Florian Bruhin 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
> >
> > I was asked whether I was interested in using it as a default search
> > engine for qutebrowser (instead of duckduckgo), and I'd get half of
> > the ad income generated by qutebrowser searches in return. They claim
> > this is about 2000 EUR per month for a partner of similar size -
> > though I'm currently asking for clarification as I'm not sure their
> > predictions about qutebrowser users are accurate ;)
> >
> > I'd like to hear some more opinions about this - if there's really
> > some four-figure income associated with this I could probably continue
> > working part-time on qutebrowser after my study (i.e. in about three
> > years) which would be a nice thing and help qutebrowser a lot.
> >
> > 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
> >
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