Getting referrers from this search engine

Never seen this SE before. I'm getting referrers from it though.

Is this run by one of the big SE's?

https://www.ecosia.org/
Never looked into it but saw an ad some time ago on YouTube saying they'll use part of the profits for sustainable projects around the world. Never had a referral from them, was it for a term about sustainability etc...?
Not sure if they build their own or have an agreement with bing/Google.

You compare results on all of them to see?
 
I get referrals from it for most of my UK sites each day.
 
Very clean UI though. I liked it
 
It's interesting, it pulls results from Microsoft but it allows you to choose from Bing or Google maps if you click on that tab, kind of liked it, it offers quick suggestions and it is fast. It is supposed to have around 5-6 millions users, which would explain with not many of us had heard of it or received referral traffic from it.
 
You can use disavow link to skip all referrers from it and use robot.txt to block it to your website to get data.
 
Never looked into it but saw an ad some time ago on YouTube saying they'll use part of the profits for sustainable projects around the world. Never had a referral from them, was it for a term about sustainability etc...?
Not sure if they build their own or have an agreement with bing/Google.

You compare results on all of them to see?

Haven't tested yet. Others mentioned it's Microsoft

Ecosia is owned by Microsoft founded by Christian Kroll.

That explains it. There are big players behind this.

You can use disavow link to skip all referrers from it and use robot.txt to block it to your website to get data.

Why would I do that?
 
Yeah I have seen ecosia too from time to time in Awstats. They were doing heavy advertising like 2 years ago on social.
 
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