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

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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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    • @[email protected]
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      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.

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      to shrink reliance on Big Tech

      Right there in the title

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    privacy folks, what’s the skinny on these two?

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      I think Ecosia sells data to Microsoft. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

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        I’d seriously love to use Ecosia but that stops me from doing so

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          I’d rather donate $10 to a charity that plants trees than be shown ads. That’s just me though.

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            sadly for me money is that tight right now, so if I can donate via ad revenue I definitely would (or better yet donating my time instead)

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      Not trying to do FUD and I work for a competitor, but I am a privacy person so I’ll provide some links and then it’s to you.

      Ecosia’s privacy policy on the data they collect and process includes your IP address, search terms and session behavioral data

      Qwant’s privacy policy seems better with most stuff you wouldn’t like only coming if you make an account. My only pause would be the Huawei relationship which is effectively FUD because there’s not really a reason (I just am not keen on this kind of partnership)

      Once again, my opinion is going to be heavily biased here.

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      I’ve been using Qwant on my laptop and phone for a couple months. Solid search. More useful than Google. The first result is usually the one I’m looking for

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        How does it compare to DDG? I’ve never even heard of these two.

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          will be pretty similar due to the Bing: https://www.searchenginemap.com/ althought Ecosia, I believe, now sources G or B location dependent

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          They don’t track and sell user data like DDG does.

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      Iirc they’re ok but not amazing, proprietary and mostly good because they aren’t Google or Bing.

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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.

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