New Ecosia search features
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We're always working on improving your search experience and helping you have a bigger impact with Ecosia. Here's what's new.

I’m personally very excited to see new features continue to roll out for Ecosia! What do you guys think?

TLDR:

Ecosia is rolling out optional Google-based search results in Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, and the Philippines. If you choose to opt-in you should get more accurate search results and ads

The Green Leaf Icon (the little leaf next to environmentally-friendly companies and the little smoggy factory next to environmentally-harmful ones) has been expanded to encompass more companies

New Rich Search Features: Now you can book a train, see attractions, book hotels, and convert currency right within your search!

Ecosia AI Chat: Ecosia has released a beta for a green chatbot (probably a large language model not technically AI but still)

Come check out [email protected] for more Ecosia stuff!

  • @poke
    1•9 months ago

    Feels like it for sure. Kinda odd for a site that’s about saving the planet to want to include an LLM driven chat bot since those take lots of power to run. It’s also not every day I see someone on Lemmy be excited for the inclusion of a Google product.

    • XusonthaOP
      5•9 months ago

      I’m not associated with Ecosia in any way, I just really like the work they’re doing to make the planet better. For the Google Index feature, I’m personally not going to turn it on since I care about privacy (and Bing’s index is nearly as good); I’m exited that they’re adding features but also happy that they made it optional for people like me who care more about privacy.

      For the LLM energy part, Ecosia runs their own solar farms and generates 200% of the power they use with those solar farms (read this blog post if you want to learn more).

      • HubertManne
        3•9 months ago

        you got me with this. I was using quant but their bangs seem to not be working anymore and last I knew ecosia still used them

        • XusonthaOP
          5•9 months ago

          Ecosia has search tags which are the same thing but with # instead of ! (so google is #g instead of !g), the whole list is here

            • XusonthaOP
              3•9 months ago

              Yeah, those are the only two I use (that and #gt for Google translate) even though there are a ton more