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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

How are first impressions for everyone? Imma start using it instead of DDG depending on the quality

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I have started using it instead of DDG few weeks ago. I can find what I'm looking at for day to day searches, so for now I keep it as my default. I had no clue they had their own index.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Apparently the European database search results is only for France so far. Let's hope they expand it soon. Also that search engine does not support !r for Reddit or !w for Wikipedia so I'm not jumping on the train just yet.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Quant doesnt but ecosia does support bang searches.

    Tried it out just today!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    So this is just Qwant and Ecosia? Seemingly they're rolling it out differently because the latest article about EUSP from Qwant was in 2024: https://betterweb.qwant.com/en/2024/11/08/ecosia-and-qwant-join-forces-to-develop-european-search-index/

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  • 2 comments in c/france@jlai.lu view that post
    [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    L’année dernière, nous avons lancé European Search Perspective (EUSP), une coentreprise avec Qwant. Le lancement a marqué une étape importante dans notre parcours vers l’indépendance technologique et la souveraineté numérique pour l’Europe.

    Vu le passif, j'y crois mais alors pas du tout

    https://www.lemediatv.fr/articles/2020/revelations-qwant-boulet-detat-z-DwVYPzQymrJjlldr8t4g
    https://www.cnil.fr/fr/qwant-cnil-traitement-des-donnees-personnelles-rappel-obligations-legales
    https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/qwant-asks-french-watchdog-take-interim-action-against-microsoft-sources-say-2025-06-03/

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    La grosse question c'est quand que Qwant passera aussi sur cet index ? Ils sont sensés aider, selon ce qui avait été annoncé à l'époque.

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  • 1 comment in c/technology@piefed.social view that post
    [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago

    I've been using Ecosia for over a year. It's a good Google search proxy.

    Really looking forward to them launching an English language search index, but it makes sense that they would start with France (I will speculate German language content will be next).

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