How it works
The name Forestle is deducted from the word "forest". Forestle is a "green Internet search engine". We use our advertising revenue to protect endangered rainforest regions in order to keep our worlds most precious ecosystems intact and fight global warming.
Forestle earns advertising revenue from clicks on "sponsored links". These are text links which are displayed next to the generic search results on the result page of our search engine. The sponsored links at Forestle are delivered by our partner Yahoo.
All of our income at www.Forestle.org (minus administrative costs) is donated to our partner The Nature Conservancy. The Nature Conservancy uses this money in their adopt an acre program in order to sustain the rainforests.
Forestle in numbers
It costs around $200(US) to buy one acre (4,047 m² or 4,840 yd²) of rain forest. On average Forestle earns around 0.5 US cent per search.
Thus you can save about 0.1 square meter (0.11 yd²) of rainforest with every search at Forestle. This area roughly equals the surface of your computer screen.
An average Internet user does about 1,000 searches annually. This means you can save more than 100 square meters (109 yd²) of rainforest every year by using Forestle!
Forestle can make a difference
The more people use our search engine the more rainforest area we can save. See what Forestle users can achieve every year just by searching the Internet:
| number of users | saved rainforest area | equals to the area of |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 100 m² (109 yd²) | a big class room |
| 50 | 5.000 m² (5.468 yd²) | football field |
| 500 | 50.000 m² (54.680 yd²) | Cheops pyramid |
| 5.000 | 500.000 m² (546.806 yd²) | Vatican |
| 50.000 | 5.000.000 m² (5.468.066 yd²) | Central Park in New York |
| 500.000 | 50.000.000 m² (54.680.664 yd²) | Manhattan |
| 5.000.000 | 500.000.000 m² (546.806.640 yd²) | New York City |