What is Forestle?
'''Forestle''' was a [[search engine]], or [[website]] for finding all kinds of [[information]] on the [[internet]]. Forestle gave money to save the [[rainforest|rain forest]] and reduce the total [[carbon dioxide]] (CO<sub>2</sub>) production. It also offered special features, for example a preview of the websites found during a search. It was invented in 2008. Forestle was discontinued and redirected to a similar search engine [[Ecosia]] on January 1, 2011.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://forestle.org/_files/switch_forestle_ecosia_en.pdf |title=Why is Forestle being redirected to Ecosia from January 1 2011 ? |access-date=2023-04-12 |archive-date=2011-08-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812080654/http://forestle.org/_files/switch_forestle_ecosia_en.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> == Helping the environment == Forestle saved 0.1 square meters (about 0.1 square yards) of [[rainforest|rain forest]] per search. It earned money from showing advertisements along with the websites found, and Forestle guarantees to donate 90% of this money to buy areas of rain forest through its partner organization '''The Nature Conservancy'''. As of October 2009, about 1,991,055 square meters of rain forest have been saved.<ref name=proof>{{cite web | url = http://forestle.org/_lang/en/about_forestle.php#proof | title = Monthly report of donations: areas of rain forest actually saved until today | accessdate = 2009-02-07 | date = 2009-02-02 | publisher = Forestle.org and The Nature Conservatory | archive-date = 2008-09-12 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080912124101/http://forestle.org/_lang/en/about_forestle.php#proof | url-status = dead }}</ref> For searching the web using Forestle was also essentially '''CO<sub>2</sub>-neutral''': Of course the server computers used by Forestle, the connection network, and the computer of the searching users need [[electricity|electric energy]] and thus create [[emission]]s of carbon-dioxide; but Forestle purchased an equivalent amount of [[renewable energy]] c