For more than a decade I use Ecosia as my default search engine in my computer and mobile and have never found it missing to other options like Google or DuckDuckGo.
The main reason for my decision is the fact that at least 80% of Ecosia profits are donated to verified tree planting projects, so that it have planted over 218 million trees worldwide as of 2025 and offsets around 45.000 metric tons of CO² annually. Ecosia also runs its search engine servers powered by 100% renewable energy, leveraging solar and wind power assets, which drastically reduce the carbon emissions associated with its query processing to sort of 20% of Google's. Through its business method, I have already planted thousands of trees and saved an immense amount of electric energy.
From the features found in DuckDuckGo algorithm, the current standards in web search privacy, Ecosia only lacks its privacy tools, The Onion Ring (TOR) network integration, and complete absence of internet protocol (IP) address retention since it anonymizes them after seven days. Both engines avoid user profiling, block third-party trackers, and do not sell data, balancing privacy with sustainability.
This makes Ecosia the only fully compliant search engine to my works with my works for the United Nations Office for Sustainable Development (UNOSD) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are required open standards for all organizations in the United Nations Global Compact for businesses because of its practical benefits for sustainable DevOps, green logistics, and overall operational carbon footprint calculation reduction.
My early works in the United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF) OldNet Internet Literacy Program with endangered communities led me to master searches so to use the least computation for sustainability so that do not forget that if you search between " " you ask search engines to look after the exact phrase and if you use - before a term you exclude it from results.
Do you have any suggestion for me to improve my web searches?
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