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Ecosia and Qwant, two European search engines, join forces on an index to shrink reliance on Big Tech | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’ve been using Qwant on my laptop and phone for a couple months. Solid search. More useful than Google. The first result is usually the one I’m looking for

[–] Nurgus 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How does it compare to DDG? I've never even heard of these two.

[–] PrivacyDingus 1 points 1 month ago

will be pretty similar due to the Bing: https://www.searchenginemap.com/ althought Ecosia, I believe, now sources G or B location dependent

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

They don’t track and sell user data like DDG does.