Google pulls the plug on eco-friendly

Well, saving the environment from the comfort of our computer chairs felt good while it lasted. Google has ended its partnership with "green" search engine Forestle, saying that the site offered "incentives to click artificially on sponsored links." Forestle says that it is attempting to "clarify" the issue and get the site reactivated, but for now, we'll all have to put our environmentally-conscious searching on hold.

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We just received an email from Google in which they announced the end of the partnership with Forestle. They said that we offered "incentives to click artificially on sponsored links" and that this was not compliant with their policies..

Well, we don't agree with that!

We displayed a note at the top of the Forestle result page that says "only click on Google sponsored links if you are really interested in them". Also we saved 0.1 m² per search and not per click! So where did we offer incentives to click on ads?

In our opinion Google ended the partnership, because Forestle became too successful: Yesterday we earned almost 200 USD and saved more than 4,000 square meters of rainforest!
We will try to reactivate Forestle and clarify this issue. Meanwhile, we ask you to use our eco-friendly search engine www.Znout.com. Znout does not save rainforest, but it reduces your energy consumption thanks to black backgrounds and EcoServers considerably.

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