Worth it Stage 1
Ecosia is steward-owned: it legally can’t be sold or pay profits to shareholders, and it spends them on tree planting and climate projects. It is building its own European search index with Qwant (2024–2025) to rely less on Bing. Switching away costs nothing. Stage 1.
- Since
- 2009
- Category
- Search
- VC-backed
- No
- Public
- No
- Website
- ecosia.org
- X
- @ecosia
The promise
Its first promise, and how much is kept · Scoring
100% kept
“Learn how you’re helping to save a piece of the rainforest with every search”
Why it’s rated 1
The criteria it meets, with sources · Method
- Alignment 1 of 3
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- A2 Nonprofit or community-run
- Lock-in 0 of 4
- None
- Extraction 0 of 7
- None
- Decline 0 of 3
- None
Result An alignment criterion, no lock-in, and at most one extraction criterion, so stage 1.
News signals
Sourced reporting, tagged by strategy