How do you even build a search index today when websites barely link to each other?
Nowadays the bulk of linking goes to ecommerce sites (amazon) from content farms (reddit) and all those sites are submitted directly to Google. I don't think crawlable internet exists anymore.
It’s great to have non-US alternatives, but when non-US alternatives become extreme self-centered as EU tends to be(come), I start questioning if this a solution I’m willing to adopt.
Current direction “of protecting the children” will easily put a filter on what you will be allowed to see and find; censorship is just too easy to implement behind the closed doors
Great job, already start using it and looking good. Crawl the f..k out of internet same way all the big techs are doing, at least what´s European stays in EU. The ethics should apply to all equally. Thank you and Viva la France.
That was remarkably fast, even if it only covers a subset of French searches. I love Ecosia, but I half expected this to be more an PR announcement when it was first presented, not that they'd actually deliver anything, and certainly not so fast.
If a search engine (be it Ecosia, Qwant, DDG or Google) is used by someone who is running uBlock Origin, does it benefit the company running the engine or does the cost of queries with no chance of displaying an add to the user outweigh the benefit from the meager amount of data collected (IP address? Interest in given keywords? Some more data for tuning the search results?)?
Every time I link someone Ecosia, they always complain that it doesn't have a "clean start page", and I do agree. That, and not having the ability to see less or more of certain pages is why no one I know uses Ecosia.
> Because it strengthens Europe’s long-term competitiveness, democratic control, and stability.
I don't see the point. What makes Europe democratic control something to cherish? The chat control plans, the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, the Digital Services Act, the militarization - none of it seems to be democratic tied to any values surrounding freedom.
It's pretty bad, but it's ours. Europe has a lot of critical infrastructure that depends on third parties. We rely far too much on USA and China.
United States could ban the EU tomorrow from using windows causing a huge problem, we also can't produce our own semiconductors. We need technological independence at this point.
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[ 1.3 ms ] story [ 43.9 ms ] threadQwant and Ecosia debut Staan, a European search index that aims to take on Big Tech
Nowadays the bulk of linking goes to ecommerce sites (amazon) from content farms (reddit) and all those sites are submitted directly to Google. I don't think crawlable internet exists anymore.
Did Qwants already work on an index?
We will see which kind of data privacy they will go for this time.
- The one that puts the data subject in the focus and protects the end user
- The one that aims to cut out Google and tries to hand out pieces of the cake to European companies.
I don't see the point. What makes Europe democratic control something to cherish? The chat control plans, the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, the Digital Services Act, the militarization - none of it seems to be democratic tied to any values surrounding freedom.
United States could ban the EU tomorrow from using windows causing a huge problem, we also can't produce our own semiconductors. We need technological independence at this point.
https://www.ecosia.org/