GoodSearch. Ecotourism Launchpad. Gooef.com. Eco-find. Green Organic Eco Search. Thegreensearch.ca. Google-Black. WebEcoist. Crash course:green search engines. Ecosia, Earthle, Znout, Greenspec and Ecocho. No these words aren’t Esperanto gone mad, they are only five of the dozens of environmentally friendly internet search engines I’ve come across recently.
We may not think about it when we type a search term into the web (and if you work for a research consultancy you’ll be doing this countless times a day) but search engines are run by massive power-hungry server networks. Take Google, for example, which has a 70% market share and gets hundreds of millions of queries a day. According to several online sources a Google search query consumes as much energy as an 11-watt light bulb does in one hour. This number is based on the total number of servers Google is running, the total energy consumption of those servers, and the total number of search queries processed. The precise impact of processing a web query is, however, highly disputed as Google acknowledges on its official blog. EcoSearch. EcoEarth. Search. TheFind Green. Blackle.
EcoSeek. ClimateGift. Green Search. What is this Green Search Engine? This search engine is only indexing Eco, Environmental or Green focussed web sites. Therefore if you want to quickly find Eco and Environmentally related facts and information, then this eco search engine is ideal. Will the Green Search Engine find what I'm looking for? Yes, as long as its Eco, Environmental or Green related. Also the combination of 'human intelligence' as to what sites make up this index, with the built in ranking algorithms, should result in good 'signal to noise' ratio on the results; i.e. no sites are included which are 'spammy' or uninformative.
Also, how the pages rank against each other in our search engine is purely based on references from other sites within our index; it is not a 'view' onto green sites from a whole web search engine. So you should get more relevant results when you search with us. Have a go at searching and see what we mean. Want your site indexed? Example Green Searches: Currently 1808691 documents are indexed.
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