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#qwant

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Petra van Cronenburg

#Google is so deep in #enshittification that I begin to believe in pure intent.

#Searching for a special moss, they give me links for the US Marine Corps, AI-generated ugliest wallpaper, and vegan fast food shops. Nothing contains moss.
But it's not only Google! #Ecosia is more on the vegan-esoteric beauty side while #Qwant throws military weapons. No moss either.

The intent? Making people stupid. Then you can better fill them up with #propaganda and #FakeNews. We need #knowledge attacks!

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All Europeans 🇪🇺

Resurrecting Qwant: New Owners Bet On GenAI To Provide Answers

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"Frankly, in 2019, building a search engine was not affordable for Qwant and it never was," he said. "The mistake was not to explain that and try to hide it. Qwant has been focused on privacy. And the team had worked hard on a solution with Microsoft that meant it didn't share data with Microsoft."

Even now, New Qwant will need a 3rd party to help with long-tail search results. Still, the transformation at New Qwant was underway when Microsoft dropped a bomb: It was dramatically raising its search API rates. This change also hit other search engines like Ecosia that relied on Bing.

"18 months ago, Microsoft changed access to Bing's search API," he said. "They increased the price without any good reason. All of us realized that we were so dependent on Microsoft that their strategy change could kill us. We decided we should not be in the passenger side but that we should be in the driver's seat."

So Qwant and Ecosia teamed up to create a 50-50 joint venture called the European Search Perspective (EUSP). Qwant will transfer the search indexing infrastructure it was building as well as some of its engineers and data scientists. Ecosia is making a cash contribution."

frenchtechjournal.com/resurrec
#Qwant #Ecosia #SearchEngine #EuropeanAlternatives

The French Tech Journal · Resurrecting Qwant: New Owners Bet On GenAI To Provide AnswersQwant CEO Olivier Abecassis: "We believed – and we still believe – that with GenAI some opportunities would appear if can find the right combination of technology and experience. [Now] we have a shareholder who is willing to fund that work."
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René

Nee, #google alles wordt omgeleid naar de #usa omdat google dan gemakkelijker kan censureren. Dus op deze manier worden Nederlanders dus gecensureerd. Omdat jullie buigen voor een #fascist. Wil je #zoeken gebruik dan #qwant #ecosia of andere #alternatieven. #censuur

Nederlandse domeinnaam Google gaat naar Google.com wijzen security.nl/posting/884290/Ned

www.security.nlNederlandse domeinnaam Google gaat naar Google.com wijzen - Security.NL
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Rod2ik 🇪🇺 🇨🇵 🇪🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 🇬🇱

“Renoncer aux burgers de chez #McDonald’s, passer au moteur de recherche #Qwant, faire ses boissons gazeuses avec une machine Les #French Bulles plutôt que #Sodastream, filiale de #PepsiCo en #France, les appels au #boycott de #marques #américaines se multiplient”

courrierinternational.com/arti

Courrier International · “Renoncer à McDonald’s” ? Paris peine à contrer les droits de douane américainsDepuis les dernières annonces de Donald Trump sur les droits de douane s’appliquant désormais aux produits de provenance européenne, les déclarations de boycott se multiplient en France. L’Hexagone a du mal à trouver une réponse, observe la presse étrangère. Avec le danger supplémentaire que le conflit commercial creuse à nouveau le déficit.
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All Europeans 🇪🇺

@mkj @antonyh

There's this map made by Mojeek that shows how many alternative search engines use Google/Bing services.

The Search Engine Map by @Mojeek social.vivaldi.net/@ueeu/11417

As for Qwant and Ecosia's reliance on Bing, it's partial - when their index isn't enough to deliver results, they turn to Bing, for example for images, recent news, etc. They're both working on a European index to be released in 2025:

The European search engines (and competitors) Ecosia 🇩🇪 and Qwant 🇫🇷are joining forces to build their own European search index
social.vivaldi.net/@ueeu/11412

Web indexing: where is Qwant's independence? social.vivaldi.net/@ueeu/11417

Vivaldi SocialAll Europeans 🇪🇺 (@ueeu@vivaldi.net)Attached: 1 image The Search Engine Map by @Mojeek@mastodon.social The map is interactive, so you can click on each circle to find out more about the different search engines. We'd love to know when the map was made, as some of the info looks out of date, but unfortunately we couldn't find that information. And the repo on GitHub no longer exists! European search engines listed: Mojeek 🇬🇧 Oscobo 🇬🇧 Entireweb 🇸🇪 Metager 🇩🇪 Ecosia 🇩🇪 Lilo 🇫🇷 Qwant 🇫🇷 eTools.ch 🇨🇭 Swisscows 🇨🇭 ZapMeta 🇳🇱 Startpage 🇳🇱 https://www.searchenginemap.com/ #SearchEngine #europeanalternatives
#qwant#ecosia#SearchEngine
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Mrco

@danie10 Something came in to my mind:
When #searchengines do not list results from #peertube it is no surprise, that people don't find that content!
I don´t know about others, but I'm using #qwant since long now and they don't. I just messaged them via their contact form about that. Don't know, if anybody ever really thought about that.
Wondering, if @Qwant is official... ^^

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