The European search engines (and competitors) Ecosia 🇩🇪 and Qwant 🇫🇷 are joining forces to build their own European search index!
And the best part? It'll be open and available to all of us!
This is great news for other small search engines, start-ups and the AI industry, as they'll now have the chance to use this index instead of the ones offered by Microsoft and Google.
blog.ecosia.org/eusp/
#ecosia #qwant #searchengine #european #europeanalternatives #germany #france #innovation
We’re teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index
We are proud to share the next step in our journey towards tech independence: building our very own search index!Ecosia (The Ecosia Blog)
El Duvelle
in reply to All Europeans • • •unfortunately Ecosia is using chatGPT so they're actually not green at all...
quote @thomholwerda
exquisite.social/@thomholwerda…
Thom, United Europe 🇪🇺
2025-03-07 23:30:14
All Europeans
in reply to All Europeans • • •Some people asked about the deadlines of the project, and Qwant blog gives some ideas about it.
Quotes:
"Ecosia and Qwant reveal a new joint venture, European Search Perspective (EUSP), to develop and build search engine infrastructure in Europe.
Starting in 2025, the venture will aim to serve improved search engine results in both the French and German language, based on Qwant technologies that have been totally redesigned since 2023.
The firm has plans to start serving Qwant and Ecosia’s France-based search engine traffic by the Q1 in 2025, and Germany by the end of the year."
Source:
betterweb.qwant.com/en/2024/11…
#ecosia #qwant #searchengine
Ecosia and Qwant join forces to develop European search index - Better Web
Team Qwant (Better Web)