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4mo ago

Ecosia and Qwant join forces to develop European search index

betterweb.qwant.com Ecosia and Qwant join forces to develop European search index - Better Web

Ecosia and Qwant today reveal a new joint venture, European Search Perspective (EUSP), to develop and build search engine infrastructure in Europe. EUSP aims to contribute to digital sovereignty within Europe and ensure the continent has a strong, independent alternative to existing search technolog...

Ecosia and Qwant join forces to develop European search index - Better Web

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5d ago

TIL German search engine Ecosia and French search engine Qwant have started teaming up since last year to build a European search index

betterweb.qwant.com /en/2024/11/08/ecosia-and-qwant-join-forces-to-develop-european-search-index/

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as an ecosia user, a custom search engine for ecosia is exiting.
- You sure you mean exiting? Or exciting?
  
  yes
- It will ofcourse still be very filtered in regards to legal grey areas like piracy and porn i assume. But even then for everything else we really need a functioning search engine.
- Nice! We will be independent of Google and Microsoft!

Wow. Damn. This is interesting.

I've lost faith in Qwant a few years ago, but this gives me some hope 😀

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