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April 23, 2008
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AAP General News (Australia)
04-23-2008
FED: Tree-planting search engine gets the chop

By Darren Osborne, Technology Writer

SYDNEY, April 23 AAP - A war of words has broken out between an "eco-friendly" website
and search engine giant Google.

Ecocho.com.au was launched last week claiming to be the world's first carbon-neutral
search engine.

The website receives funds from searches funnelled through Yahoo, and Google's Adsense program.

It then promises to use those funds to buy carbon offset credits, claiming 1,000 searches
made through the website would result in the planting of two trees.

However, the website aroused the attention of Google, after Ecocho began a campaign
to ...

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