Personally I like DDG. I think that venturing out into other search engines can be a slippery slope, but if it does bring in monthly money, that is just hard or impossible to turn down, as long as the company has users in it's best interest. Would be interesting to know what data they are collecting and who they are selling it to.
--- Jasper C. [He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. - Jim Elliott] [There are three stages to every great work of God; first it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done - Hudson Taylor] On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Whiskers <catwhee...@operamail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 18:31:03 +0200 Florian Bruhin <m...@the-compiler.org> > wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I got contacted by the Ecosia search engine a few days ago: > >https://www.ecosia.org/ > > > >They seem to get their results via Bing mostly (DuckDuckGo gets them > >from Yahoo and in some regions Yandex/Bing) and apparently use (part > >of) their ad income to plant trees: > >https://info.ecosia.org/what > > [...] > > >On the other hand, while Ecosia seems quite cool, it seems to lack > >some functionality (like instant answers) compared to duckduckgo. > > > >What do you think? > > > >Florian > > I generally prefer 'Ixquick' (now calling itself 'StartPage' as well) > which apparently gets it's search results from Google. > > But I'm all in favour of variety and I'd give 'Ecosia' a go if it might > help qutebrowser. I do like trees :)) > > -- > -- ^^^^^^^^^^ > -- Whiskers > -- ~~~~~~~~~~ >
