Are there shortcuts for Ecosia?
Yes! Ecosia search tags give you quick access to external search functions such as images, maps and YouTube. To use them, just enter your search term as usual with the tag at the end. For example, if you enter "Berlin #m" into the Ecosia search box, you'll get Google Maps results for the term "Berlin".
To learn more about Ecosia search tags, watch this video or try the following tags with a search of your choice. Simply put whatever you are looking for in front of the tag you want to use. Just like in the Berlin maps example you don't need to add a + or anything else.
So basically:
#fb takes you to the Facebook search for a specific keyword or a site
#finance will take you straight to the Yahoo Finance results for your search
#g for the google tab on Ecosia
#gb will take you straight to the Google Books results for your search
#go takes you straight to Google's I'm feeling lucky
#i for images
#m will show you maps of whatever you are searching for
#n for news on the topic you searched for
#tr will take you straight to the Google translation for your search
#tw will take you to the twitter results for your search
#v for videos
#w will take you to the related Wikipedia article
#walpha will take you straight to the Wolfram Alpha results for your search
#yt will take you straight to the YouTube results for your search
Here's an overview of all of Ecosia's search tags:
| #a | Amazon |
| #amazon | Amazon |
| #b | Bing |
| #bing | Bing |
| #ebay | eBay |
| #i | Ecosia Images |
| #m | Ecosia Maps |
| #maps | Ecosia Maps |
| #n | Ecosia News |
| #news | Ecosia News |
| #videos | Ecosia Videos |
| #fb | |
| #gmail | GMail |
| #g | |
| #book | Google Books |
| #gdocs | Google Drive |
| #docs | Google Drive |
| #gi | Google Images |
| #gimages | Google Images |
| #go | Google Lucky |
| #gmaps | Google Maps |
| #gn | Google News |
| #gnews | Google News |
| #gt | Google Translate |
| #gtranslate | Google Translate |
| #tr | Google Translate |
| #torrentz | Torrentz |
| #torrents | Torrentz |
| #w | Wikipedia |
| #wiki | Wikipedia |
| #wa | Wolfram Alpha |
| #wolfram | Wolfram Alpha |
| #wolframalpha | Wolfram Alpha |
| #walpha | Wolfram Alpha |
| #finance | Yahoo Finance |
| #yt | Youtube |
| #youtube | Youtube |