13 Facts About Ecosia

Ecosia considers itself a social business, claiming to be CO2-negative, and supports full financial transparency and protects the privacy of its users.

Ecosia is B Lab-certified, meeting its standards of accountability, sustainability, and performance.

In 2018, Ecosia committed to becoming a privacy-friendly search engine.

When someone clicks on an ad in Ecosia, Microsoft earns money, according to Kroll, but Ecosia gets a large portion of the sales.

Ecosia was launched on 7 December 2009 to coincide with UN climate talks in Copenhagen.

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Until December 2010, Ecosia's funds went to a WWF Germany program that protected Juruena National Park in the Amazon basin.

Ecosia has stressed that it is not only carbon-neutral but carbon-negative.

Ecosia has been a certified B Corporation since April 2014.

Ecosia is available on Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Microsoft Edge, and other browsers as a default search engine by downloading the extension from the Chrome Web Store or Mozilla's Addon site, among others.

Ecosia briefly was the default search engine of the Waterfox web browser starting with version 44.

On 28 January 2021, Ecosia became an official search engine on the Brave browser as a result of a partnership announced that day by both companies.

On 12 August 2019, Ecosia announced it would not participate in the "search-choice" auction to appear on Android devices led by Google.

Ecosia became the default search engine at a number of European universities, including UWE Bristol, Glasgow, Leeds, and Lincoln in the United Kingdom, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands.