Is Ecosia legit?

In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I look at whether the search engine Ecosia is legit. Specifically, I figure out if Ecosia is real when they say Ecosia plants trees for every web search you make. Because there are no Snopes pieces on Ecosia, I figured it would be important to see if Ecosia is actually planting trees as they claim, as well as try to figure out whether switching from Google to Ecosia makes sense.

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Resources:

#Ecosia #treeplanting #OurChangingClimate

[OurChangingClimate]

Do you use Ecosia? What do you think of it?

[QronoZ]

What's more important is preserving existing forests. Unfortunately, you can't replant rainforests. It takes thousands of years for the complex ecosystems to develop.

[guiguigamer]

IMPORTANT THING !!!
1 SEARCH NOT=1 TREE
but if you click on the little earth on the right top that say
45 search=1tree

[A-Wa]

Imagine the impact if google would just invest 1% of their money every year to trees!

[vincentivanchev]

Who else went, got Ecosia, and started searching random things.

[atan]

im a sucker for being good for the environment with as little effort as possible

[michelcomenta]

I'm glad they aren't faking it because I made my whole family use this browser. 😊

[goosty]

THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS BECAUSE I USE ECOSIA

[maggy]

Been using it for 2 years. The total number of searches that I have so far is 8, 452 which means I've planted about 187 trees. I get surprised every time I compute it and it kinda feels really good to know that I've contributed this much.

[benadrian]

My work involves 8-hour research using a search engine. Glad I can help.


Edit: 64 Trees planted so far.

[supergirlysofia]

1:02 *CORRECTION: Ecosia claims every 45 searches there's a tree being planted...just letting you know

[bellarosales]

Using Ecosia makes me feel I'm actually doing something positive for the planet, even if it's small. I'll use this momentum to help me find even more ways to help the Earth.

[bellelirazan]

i have used ecosia many times now and i have planted 11 trees! i'm gonna save earth.

[BruceNtwayne]

literally had the ecosia ad before watching this video

[alf]

Unfortunately since it uses Bing, the search results are different than Google, and in many cases, less relevant.
I have Ecosia set as my default search engine, since all my casual searches are successful with it, but I also have a Google search bar whenever I want to use Google Maps, or can't find exactly what I'm looking for.
It would be nicer if Ecosia used Google's engine, but it's probably impossible. It's good the way it is, but Google is needed as a backup for me.

[grace]

**gets an ecosia ad**
cha cha real smooth

[MattoMattoGaming]

PewDiePie should really shout out ecosia, imagine the impact on them. If I had that many subs, id make sure i shoutout everything i can to help.

[IanLeeIsMe]

Clicks on video
Advertisement : "Ecosia is a search engine just like google, but we save

[stephon]

Ecosia, planting almost 100 million trees: Nobody cares


Mr. Beast plants 20 million trees: WOAH NO WAY MR BEAST IS SO COOL

[annika]

Title: _"Is Ecosia legit?"_

Yes or Yes... it's actually a yes. You can now spend your 7 minutes on other things :)