One problem with that story is that Ecosias servers are merely acting as a front-end for Bing. They admit thatĮcosia statement on "Renewable energy" The lack of third party JavaScript and other third party elements on their website strongly indicates that this particular part of their story does hold water.ĭigging deeper into their privacy policy reveals a slight problem with their story. They also claim they do not use any external tracking tools. They also promise that they do not sell your data to advertisers. Running JavaScript is not required to produce results.Įcosia story is that they "Don't store your searches permanently" and they "anonymize all searches within one week". They do not have any third party tracking on their site. Most advertisement buyers will simply create a general campaign and have their advertisements display at whatever partnered search engines provide the traffic most relevant to the campaign.Įcosias search site tries to run JavaScript from their own domain () and only their own domain. Doing so requires a huge amount of steps and hoops. It is possible to specifically target Ecosias and its user-base. Ecosia is simply one of many partners who are part of Microsofts advertisement network.
Advertisements are sold and provided by Microsofts Bing Ads. A search for " is linux better than windows" produces the exact same top three results on Bing, Ecosia and Yandex.Īll in all the Ecosia results are basically Microsoft Bings search results ordered slightly better.Įcosia does not sell advertisement directly. Ecosias algorithm does not do anything in all cases. Neither Bing, Ecosia or Yandex produce the correct answer (It's clearly Nako Yabuki) and Yandex is the only one which comes close. The top two search results for " who is the most talented iz*one member" on Bing have absolutely nothing to do with the k-pop group IZ*ONE while the top two results on Ecosia do. Ecosia does apply its own algorithm to the results Bing feeds it and that processing appears to have a positive effect. The results are therefore limited to the results the "Bing" search engine feeds Ecosia. Ecosia does not have any web crawler or search index of its own. Search results for "who is the most talented iz*one member" from Ecosia, Bing and Yandex.Įcosia is a metasearch engine with Microsoft Bing as its only source.
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