They were historically completely dependent on Bing (like most other search engines) and while they continued putting some efforts in building their own index, they’re nowhere close to it.
They also recently made a few moves to push advertising and to compromise with privacy (eg. the option to create tracked account to access some AI services).
On the other hands they will probably be more respectful than Google, and the quality of Google’s results seems to be degrading faster than Qwant is improving 🤷
I’d guess Ecosia is in a similar situation. I’ve personally been using Kagi for a while but recent events make me consider moving to a European alternative too.
Yeah but I think Kagi is a meta search engine, so at least the technical dependency on Yandex is limited 🤞
I also have high hope for the Ecosia x Qwant project but I don’t think there is any specific funding yet, so it’s just about sharing Qwant’s advancement on building its index 🫤 Let’s stop wasting all our money on AI and let’s build our own datacenters and raise enough funding for a few dozens more search engineers!
Meh 🤷
They were historically completely dependent on Bing (like most other search engines) and while they continued putting some efforts in building their own index, they’re nowhere close to it.
They also recently made a few moves to push advertising and to compromise with privacy (eg. the option to create tracked account to access some AI services).
On the other hands they will probably be more respectful than Google, and the quality of Google’s results seems to be degrading faster than Qwant is improving 🤷
I’d guess Ecosia is in a similar situation. I’ve personally been using Kagi for a while but recent events make me consider moving to a European alternative too.
Kagi also used Yandex the russian searching index btw.
I think this sounds promising https://betterweb.qwant.com/en/2024/11/08/ecosia-and-qwant-join-forces-to-develop-european-search-index/
Yeah but I think Kagi is a meta search engine, so at least the technical dependency on Yandex is limited 🤞
I also have high hope for the Ecosia x Qwant project but I don’t think there is any specific funding yet, so it’s just about sharing Qwant’s advancement on building its index 🫤 Let’s stop wasting all our money on AI and let’s build our own datacenters and raise enough funding for a few dozens more search engineers!
iirc Ecosia and Qwant were working on a search engine to substitute Google, or at least give it competition
Yeah that’s what was announced but sadly I don’t think any consequent investment has been made.