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The war between search engines is ended. Today, Google dominates the market in a overwhelming way followed in a great distance by Bing. Nevertheless, some alternatives were born and need to be noticed by their originality.
Ecosia: the search engine transplants trees
Ecosia is a search engine which claims the ecologist commitment. In fact, Ecosia-based research allows to plant trees. The principle is simple: the researches generate income in the search engine. Once all the paid loads, the profits are distributed in environmental causes. 80% of the latter is put back to a Brazilian association named "The nature Conservancy" and more specifically to the program "Plant a billion tree". The remaining profits are intended to compensate for CO2 emissions connected to the company’s functions such as the researches made by the users. At Ecosia’s homepage, a recent event system estimates the number of planted trees. There have already been more than 6 million!
Lilo supports social projects
Like Ecosia, Lilo is non-profit and possesses a neutral carbon footprint. Only, instead of planting trees, Lilo finances projects "committing human beings and the planet". The profits of the search engine are thus completely donating to charities and NGO the commitment in social and environmental causes. And since 2015, Lilo has allowed every Internet user to choose whom to offer the searching product to. It can select the associations in a list chosen to support.
Many users of Google, Yahoo and Bing wonder about the relevance of alternative search engines as Lilo. But they do not have to worry because Lilo makes an appeal to the algorithms of search meta-engines, which allows to guarantee Internet users of such reliable searches by making use of the traditional search engines.
Qwant: the respect of personal data above all
Qwant is a French 100 % search engine which respects the personal data. Qwant, on contrary of Google, stores no personal datum connected Internet users. This commitment has two concrete consequences for the Internet user who uses Qwant. First of all, the searching results are strictly sorted out by relevance. They are sorted out on no account according to the user’s localization or the previous searches.
Then, in a more indirect way, Qwant satisfies people who would like to keep their anonymity on the net and who do not support to deliver their private life in the searches. This alternative search engine recognizes an increasing success. It is used by 32 million people in Europe today and established to reach the bar of 150 million before the end of the year. Measuring the increasing success, the deposit office has just entered Qwant’s capital.
Article written by Bertrand Connin