• MrSoup@lemmy.zip
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    21 hours ago

    Qwant (french) got its own indexing.

    Edit: the linked article isn’t about search engines but big tech companies.

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      21 hours ago

      Ecosia (Germany) does too. They work together with Qwant on that.

      Both don’t exclusively use their own indexing, and still depend on Google and Bing for part of their results. But you have to start somewhere

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        21 hours ago

        and they’re both equally shit because they both use AI fuckery. To stop US tech aggression, we need to ban their weapons (AI) as well!

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          What makes you think they use US ai? And even if they do it’s surely just a stopgap till they make their pwn. And and all the search engines have a way to turn off ai in your searches. And and and this is the type of purity test that prevents progress from happening

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      20 hours ago

      Qwant is fricken awesome, it’s as good as and sometimes even better than Google

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        18 hours ago

        Is strongly disagree. I have it set as my main web search but it’s often so bad that I have to jump to Google or something else, which I don’t want to do. The only modern truly great one I’ve used in Kagi, but since it’s US based and not free I don’t use it.