SEARCHING FOR ALTERNATIVES

If there’s one area where Google remains an immovable, dominant force, it’s search. Yet, there are interesting alternatives to Google, most of which don’t compete on the strength of their results, but the strength of their values. Here are a few ethical alternatives to Google to consider: ECOSIA Ecosia is the up-and-coming search engine. It’s offered as one of the preset search engines in Vivaldi and is a Bing-powered search engine that’s trying to save the planet. Ecosia pledges to return 80% of its profits from search ad revenue to tree-planting projects around the world. You can’t fault its transparency: it publishes a monthly financial report (documents.ecosia.org) revealing exactly how much has been earned in spent. In April 2018, for instance, it donated more than $536,000 to tree-planting projects and…

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PC & Tech Authority (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2018

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