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TIL German search engine Ecosia and French search engine Qwant have started teaming up since last year to build a European search index (betterweb.qwant.com)

submitted 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) by oce@jlai.lu to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

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Historically, they have both been relying mostly on the Bing index, with Qwant building its own index for a while and serving a mix.

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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Both already mostly relied mostly on ads before this partnership. Nothing changed. But perhaps they will need less ads if running their own search index is cheaper than using Bing's.

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Would love this. Hopefully Qwant and Ecosia can make it happen soon.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 19 hours ago

Either way, I use ecosia without as blockers because I want this to happen asap.