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Ecosia and Qwant join forces to develop European search index (betterweb.qwant.com)
submitted 6 days ago by Joker@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 6 days ago (3 children)

as an ecosia user, a custom search engine for ecosia is exiting.

[–] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You sure you mean exiting? Or exciting?

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

Nice! We will be independent of Google and Microsoft!

[–] ElPussyKangaroo@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Wow. Damn. This is interesting.

[–] Bogasse@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago

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