A Vivaldi Search engine with environment resposibility
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I came to the idea after reading about Ecosia and the amount of money they earn from ads on their browser that maybe Vivaldi could follow that path.
Ecosia is making a lot of money by using Microsoft's search engine behind the scenes, and showing ads on top of it. From the benefits, they dedicate a lot of money to plant trees. That motivate a lot of people (like myself) to use it.
Being Vivaldi a Norwegian company, normally associated with progress, social responsibility and being green, it would make sense to become a NGO or some other kind of social enterprise and have a seach site as a revenue source and invest a part on any chosen environment cause and also to maybe get more developers to speed up Vivaldi's browser development (like an iOS Vivaldi app).Source: https://blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-financial-reports-tree-planting-receipts/
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@almarma Old news for most of us. I have been using Ecosia as my default for months because I love the environment.
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Then would you please read again my post? I'm not recommending using Ecosia, I'm proposing to Vivaldi to do the same Ecosia does: make a Search engine with social responsibility (but made by Vivaldi), and use it for helping others and to improve the browser and make it even more interesting for new users because they would feel Vivaldi as an Eco-Friendly ecosystem. Today I was thinking that giving access to clean water for people around the World without access to water could be great.
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@almarma Unfortunately, there's no manpower to do such a thing.
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@guigirl Personpower is too many syllables. So is sentiententitypower.
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@guigirl Oh, I see. You think I must be short on syllables.
Actually, I began practicing syllable husbandry a few years back, have produced a number of bumper crops, and have a surfeit of syllables.
No, what I'm short on is the conversion of serum glucose to muscle motor activity to harvest the syllables and apply them, via keyboard, to page. I have the syllables. I just can't use them.
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@guigirl Ah, well, my fault again. My sarcasmator has too blunt a point to insert between those lines, so I can't access the vein of wit and mine the irony lode.
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@guigirl I retire from the field, grievously wounded. The day is yours.
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@guigirl Very well. A draw.
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Hi, I may be wrong but personally I tried different alternative search engines like qwant or duck duck goand always got back to google because the search results were different and often lacked efficiency/precision.
Would it be technically possible for Vivaldi to develop its own engine which would give the google results but without the tracking and other annoyances linked to google?
I would not like another alternative search engine but if Vivaldi is capable of creating a kind of google overlay, it would be great!
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@C2A You can give Startpage a try. Just select it in
Settings | Search | Search Engines
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@guigirl someday maybe; I hope so!
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The Startpage and SeraX search engines are also in my search engine collection:
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@hlehyaric thanks; I know it and it is probably better as regards results than the ones I quoted.
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I just set SearX as my default search engine
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@guigirl , yes, this Seax thing is desperate, every time you have to put another instance, because the current one ceases to exist and others show only quite concise results.
At the moment I am using others, which are going quite well, Gibiru, Groot (from SSuite, it is an independent search engine, private and very fast), Oscobo and Searchencrypt.
I like Groot, but I still have not found how to make it work from the search bar, so far it only works directly from the page, or from the search bar of SSuite Desktop -
@almarma Most of these search engines - DuckDuckGo, Ecosia - pull the results from bing. For better results, they could pull from google. So, it wouldn’t be hard for Vivaldi to do the same, the question is more if Vivaldi wants to go down that road and try to market a search engine.
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@almarma said in A Vivaldi Search engine with environment resposibility:
make a Search engine with social responsibility (but made by Vivaldi)
There are already a lot of search-engines that do that. I think the Vivaldi team should stick to making a browser.
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They always forget that Vivaldi has about 12 developers, commissioned to create Vivaldi for 5 different OS and a list of 4000 feature requests, apart from the Buglist.
If Vivaldi had 300 developers, one could talk about these things, but it is not like that.
Even so, I wouldn't be surprised if Vivaldi 5.0 has AI and becomes self-aware in v6.0.