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Have you heard of Ecosia?

 
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Hi everyone,

I have randomly seen this little helpful text about how to add a search link to Google on this forum.

I immediately thought: "Wouldn't it be much better to add Ecosia Search links instead?"

For those, who don't know yet. There is a much more ethical alternative to Google. It is ecosia.org.
They are really amazing. They decided to use almost all of their profits to plant trees! So roughly 45 searches plant 1 tree. And so far they have planted over 76 million trees.

I really suggest to support them. Can we have Ecosia Search Snippet either instead or next to the google snipped?

Best regards,
Eric
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Ecosia is great, they have these informative films about growing trees as well. Seems legit. I use it as my default search engine and it's pretty good. Privacy is important to them.
 
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To do this, we would need to know how to do this.  

Here is my attempt to use this for googling hugelkultur hugelkultur - when you hover over it, you can see what it did.  It made a link that will work for google.
 
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I looked around on ecosia and could not find a solution so I sent them a message asking if it was possible to create a link that would search for a term in Ecosia when someone clicks on it. I gave them the google example to help explain what I was talking about. I will let you know what I hear back from them.
 
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My default Safari search engine randomly changed to this without me even knowing what it was.

I suspect Permies is at hand here with some wizardry or my own haphazard self.
 
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