Ecosia, which plants trees with every search, went from 20,000 daily installs to 250,000 on Thursday.
Ecosia, an eco-friendly search engine, says it saw a 1150% increase in daily downloads in one day as people become more aware of the blazing fires currently ripping through the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. Ecosia uses 80% of its profits from search ads to plant millions of trees in Brazil and other emerging economies, and says it has planted 65 million trees to date.
Ecosia, an eco-friendly search engine, says it saw a 1150% increase in daily downloads in one day as people become more aware of the blazing fires currently ripping through the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. Ecosia uses 80% of its profits from search ads to plant millions of trees in Brazil and other emerging economies, and says it has planted 65 million trees to date.
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