Can’t you simply e.g. donate 200$ each year to offset this ? E.g. google charge (I think) ~1$/click for a US demographic (some exceptions, blah blah) and how many search engine ads do you click ? For me it’s ~0, but let’s say… 100 a year ? add to that like 1$ hundred impressions + 10,000 searches a year. Granted, this is a very rough number, but I’m being rather charitable with the profit here, I think, considering a large part of that is actually operational costs.
It seems like your search data is hardly worth more than that, and the advantages of using google are many in terms of time saving. Enough to be e.g. worth 200$.
I get why one wouldn’t want to use google for ethical reasons, but at the eod all the search engines which use a centralized structure are equally bad, they just happen not to hold a monopoly (however, in that case, if you’re just anti-monopoly, you might as well use e.g. Bing which seems closest to google in terms of quality)
Thanks for helping me realize that searching on Ecosia does squat when I’m not clicking adds. Looks like they make money per click and also per puchase through adds.
Can’t you simply e.g. donate 200$ each year to offset this ? E.g. google charge (I think) ~1$/click for a US demographic (some exceptions, blah blah) and how many search engine ads do you click ? For me it’s ~0, but let’s say… 100 a year ? add to that like 1$ hundred impressions + 10,000 searches a year. Granted, this is a very rough number, but I’m being rather charitable with the profit here, I think, considering a large part of that is actually operational costs.
It seems like your search data is hardly worth more than that, and the advantages of using google are many in terms of time saving. Enough to be e.g. worth 200$.
I get why one wouldn’t want to use google for ethical reasons, but at the eod all the search engines which use a centralized structure are equally bad, they just happen not to hold a monopoly (however, in that case, if you’re just anti-monopoly, you might as well use e.g. Bing which seems closest to google in terms of quality)
Thanks for helping me realize that searching on Ecosia does squat when I’m not clicking adds. Looks like they make money per click and also per puchase through adds.