Idea & Team

How Does Ecosia Work?

• Search the Web, Save the Environment
• Main Features, main advantages

Team & History

• Who is behind Ecosia?
• How Ecosia was founded
• Ecosia, Germany's first certified B Corporation
• Work at Ecosia

Transparency

• We publish all our donations receipts & business reports
• How does Ecosia handle search and data privacy?
• What sets Ecosia apart from its competitors?

Sharing Ecosia

• How can I support Ecosia?
• Are there Ecosia brochures or other offline informational materials available for me to distribute?
• How can I integrate an Ecosia search bar or banner into my website?
• Is there Ecosia merchandise available?

Business

Business Model

• How does Ecosia make money?
• We donate our profits from ad income
• How much money does Ecosia earn? How much does it donate?
• Being a social business
• Business reports & donation receipts
• How do I get Ecosia to support my socially, environmentally and economically sustainable project?

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Advertisements on Ecosia

• What are EcoAds?
• What are EcoLinks?
• Can I support Ecosia by randomly clicking on EcoAds?
• How do I get my ad blocker extension or add-on to make an exception for Ecosia?
• Does an EcoAd mean the products or businesses I'm looking at are sustainable?
• How can I advertise on Ecosia?

CO2 Neutralization

• How do you neutralize a search's CO2 emissions?
• MyClimate: Solar and efficient cookers in Madagascar

Search

Tips & Shortcuts

• What are search tags?
• Use a keyboard shortcut to open images in a new tab
• Make Ecosia even faster with OpenSearch in Chrome

General

• How do search engines work?
• Why doesn't Ecosia use a black background to save energy?
• Alternative search engines

Search partners

• Where do Ecosia's search results come from?
• Our search partners at Microsoft Bing
• Is Bing CO2-neutral?

Technical support

• Windows Active Directory: Setting Ecosia as IE's default search
• Make Ecosia your default search engine in Safari
• Make Ecosia your default search engine in Chrome
• Make Ecosia your default search engine in Firefox
• Make Ecosia your default search engine in Microsoft Edge
• How do I set Ecosia as my default search engine?

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Tree Counter

• How does the tree counter work? What does it mean when you say "You've helped plant X trees"?
• How much do you actually earn per search? Does one search finance one new tree?
• Why was my tree counter reset to '1' and how do I prevent it from happening again?

Planting Project

Planting Partners

• PUR Projet
• The Eden Projects
• WeForest
• Entrepreneurs Without Borders (OZG)

Tree Planting

• Can I submit a tree-planting project I think you should support?
• Can I choose which project I’d like to support with my trees?
• How does Ecosia decide how much money to donate to each tree-planting project?
• Why do you plant trees instead of supporting a different cause?
• Where exactly are the trees being planted?