Ecosia is great in general, they’ve done stuff like this before for wildfires and such, and they are carbin negative and use 100% of their profits for helping the planet

The search engine is also pretty good too!

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    1 year ago

    I made the switch to Ecosia because it’s basically the same as DDG but it gives me the option of going to Google Maps as a link, rather than always having to type the !g tag.

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      Yeah, and it also has the feature where if you want to search something on google just put #g in the search and it auto redirects to google like bangs!

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        1 year ago

        Yeah both DDG and Ecosia have the shortcuts, what annoyed me with DDG was that if you searched for something then clicked a Map result it took you into Apple Maps, which was crap. With Ecosia when you click Maps it just gives you a choice between Google and Bing - with DDG I’d always click the link and then have to go back and type in the bang.

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      1 year ago

      I dunno, I used to use ecosia and eventually switched back to Google because ecosia kept giving me bad or irrelevant search results compared to Google. That was a couple years ago, is it worth it giving it another try?

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        1 year ago

        Both Ecosia and DDG use Bing for their back end. I still find myself throwing in a !g occassionally when I don’t like the results, but frankly Google has gone down hill and isn’t much better a lot of the time.