ClimateGift EcoEarth EcoSearch 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. There are three main types of eco-friendly search engines out there. The second type of green search engine is those which are purposely built to seek out environmental information for the user. The third, and final, type of environmentally friendly search resources are those that give a proportion of their profits from their sponsorship advertisement and retail revenue to charitable green causes. From this little snap shot research many questions emerge, for instance:
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? 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. Have a go at searching and see what we mean. Want your site indexed? Example Green Searches: Currently 1808691 documents are indexed. Note: EcoWho's Green Search Engine is now browser Open Search Enabled - see your browser's search box.
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