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Forestle Dropped by Google, Embraced by Yahoo

Forestle is a search engine with the goal of saving the Rain Forests. It was built on Google Custom Search, but Google revoked the site's search functionality claiming that Forestle offered "incentives to click artificially on sponsored links," which is not compliant with Google's policies.

Google: You're Not Saving the Rain Forests That Way!

Forestle is a search engine built on Google Custom Search, with the goal of saving the Rain Forests. That seems like a noble enough cause. Their methods of going about this, however, have gotten the site's search functionality revoked by Google. When you try to perform a search on Forestle, you get a big pink box with a message from the Forestle team. The message goes: