Why was Forestle.org discontinued?
Starting January 1 2011, all search queries to www.Forestle.org will be automatically redirected to Ecosia. Forestle was the first green search engine founded by Christian Kroll and saw two-and-a-half very exciting and successful years: Launched in August 2008, the fledgling project Forestle grew rapidly with Google as its search index and ad partner. Google backed out as donation sums went up, however, and Christian was forced to seek a replacement service. Yahoo Germany signed on immediately, and Forestle resumed operations in November 2008, after which the green search continued to grow within Germany, Austria and Switzerland. But it soon became clear that with more than 100,000 users and more on the way, Forestle was showing international potential. In December 2009, Christian founded the globally-accessible green search engine Ecosia. Forestle was able to donate 95,000 EUR to its Adopt an Acre rainforest protection program run by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in Costa Rica. The sum
