YSK: Ecosia is a search engine that plant trees with every search - eviltoast
  • backpackn@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Their answers there do make it sound like clicks are necessary, but it’s my understanding that each search query also has a fixed rate. Advertisers pay for both clicks and impressions. That’s why everyone gets a tree counter that goes up for just searching. Granted it’s a very small earning for impressions, which is why it takes ~50 searches for a single tree.