Ecosia – the search engine that plants trees
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#2Givero also gives back to various good causes
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#3Wow, this is one of the better attempts to monetize an environmentalists' identity. This could literally be a wrapper around bing/google, very little investment. Build out the tree-planting department as you scale income, without having to solve the hard technical problems at all.
Kudos to them! This should be an inspirational example whenever people talk about starting a tech company on minimal code.
(Their commitment to transparency is also pretty neat -- way to understand your customers' values, and identify a niche defined by said values. A fantastic differentiator in a market that's generally commoditized these days!)
Re: Ecosia – the search engine that plants trees
#4Wow, this is one of the better attempts to monetize an environmentalists' identity. This could literally be a wrapper around bing/google, very little investment. Build out the tree-planting department as you scale income, without having to solve the hard technical problems at all. Kudos to them! This should be an inspirational example whenever people talk about starting a tech company on minimal code. (Their commitme…
It wraps bing. This is the 2nd time I've come across Ecosia, today I added the add-on to Firefox. Here's to hoping they actually plant the trees!
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#5It says "Powered by Microsoft" on the bottom of a search results page. Is this just a wrapper around bing?
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#6It says "Powered by Microsoft" on the bottom of a search results page. Is this just a wrapper around bing?
How much more than "a wrapper around Bing" would you say DuckDuckGo is?
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#7It says "Powered by Microsoft" on the bottom of a search results page. Is this just a wrapper around bing?
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#8It says "Powered by Microsoft" on the bottom of a search results page. Is this just a wrapper around bing?
Pretty much every search box you see on the Internet is a wrapper around Google or bing, with Yandex as a distant 3rd and a few country-specific engines in China, Russia, Korea, etc.
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#9It says "Powered by Microsoft" on the bottom of a search results page. Is this just a wrapper around bing?
How much more than "a wrapper around Bing" would you say DuckDuckGo is?
They claim to be merging 'traditional' search results from multiple providers, explicitly calling out Oath (Yahoo) as well as Bing. So, hopefully, substantially. Realistically, somewhat.
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#10I was investigating massive reforestation as a means of reducing greenhouse gases a few days ago. I stumbled upon this hyper-dense technique called the Miyawaki method [1]. Sounds like it's resource-intensive upfront but might be self-sustaining after that. The guy mentioned in [1] has open-sourced the methodology here [2].
[1]: https://fellowsblog.ted.com/how-to-grow-a-forest-really-real...