Ecosia and Qwant, two European search engines, join forces on an index to shrink reliance on Big Tech | TechCrunch

Qwant, France's privacy-focused search engine, and Ecosia, a Berlin-based not-for-profit search engine that uses ad revenue to fund tree planting and

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I wish them luck with this. I'm not optimistic but wish them the best. The space is finally ripe for competition.
Hmmm doing this when we have already AI doing the search for the user going though who cares which index and even checking websites for the data you need… I don’t see the point, they will be years behind in development
- to shrink reliance on Big Tech
  
  Right there in the title
- AI needs a search Engine as well. it uses it to find the context needed to answer the prompt that was send to the AI system.