Re: [qutebrowser] qutebrowser search partnership with Ecosia?

[Michael Keyes]

On 25.07.16 17:31, Florian Bruhin wrote:
> What do you think?
>
> Florian
>
Well, I'm always willing to try something new. I do like the sound of
trees, but unfortunately that "what" link is giving a server error right
now! Still sounds like it might be a good idea.

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Re: [qutebrowser] qutebrowser search partnership with Ecosia?

[Jasper Campbell]

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.


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On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Whiskers  wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 18:31:03 +0200 Florian Bruhin 
> 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  :))
>
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Re: [qutebrowser] qutebrowser search partnership with Ecosia?

[Whiskers]

On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 18:31:03 +0200 Florian Bruhin 
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 
-- ~~

Re: [qutebrowser] qutebrowser search partnership with Ecosia?

[Thomas Jensch]

hiho,

* Florian Bruhin  [2016-07-25T18:31+0200]:

> What do you think?

surfraw user here - unfortunately for you, I dont utilize any preset
search engine in any browsers I use.

sorry.

mfg
Thomas


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[qutebrowser] qutebrowser search partnership with Ecosia?

[Florian Bruhin]

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

I was asked whether I was interested in using it as a default search
engine for qutebrowser (instead of duckduckgo), and I'd get half of
the ad income generated by qutebrowser searches in return. They claim
this is about 2000 EUR per month for a partner of similar size -
though I'm currently asking for clarification as I'm not sure their
predictions about qutebrowser users are accurate ;)

I'd like to hear some more opinions about this - if there's really
some four-figure income associated with this I could probably continue
working part-time on qutebrowser after my study (i.e. in about three
years) which would be a nice thing and help qutebrowser a lot.

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

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