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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

I hope it'll be opensource...

[–] ByteJunk 6 points 19 hours ago

I hope the engine isn't called "eusp", but other than that, really excited for this!

[–] ReasonableHat 16 points 1 day ago

Read about this the other day - a great collab!

[–] Jackhammer_Joe 5 points 19 hours ago

That's really gEUd to hear! I'll give it a try

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

@oce There's also @Mojeek which already has it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

UK based, interesting, first time I hear about it. How good is it? Maybe they could make a trio.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana 8 points 1 day ago

Nice. I'll keep an eye on this!