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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)

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Historically, they have both been relying mostly on the Bing index, with Qwant building its own index for a while and serving a mix.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've been carefully optimistic about this - even if ecosia and qwant decide to start heavily serve ads it still means we have an alternative which will supplement privacy focused frontends and metasearch engines.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Both already mostly relied mostly on ads before this partnership. Nothing changed. But perhaps they will need less ads if running their own search index is cheaper than using Bing's.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Would love this. Hopefully Qwant and Ecosia can make it happen soon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Either way, I use ecosia without as blockers because I want this to happen asap.