Both still use Google and Bing for part of their search results (albeit with the search queries somewhat anonymised). And both have been working together on a European search index which they have been slowly rolling out over the past year orso now.
Ecosia differentiates itself from the competition by using part of their profits to plant trees, and by promising that their servers are run on renewable energy.
Personally I use Ecosia over Qwant, because I found the search results for news articles to be a bit better. But ultimately both are very similar.
Is strongly disagree. I have it set as my main web search but it’s often so bad that I have to jump to Google or something else, which I don’t want to do.
The only modern truly great one I’ve used in Kagi, but since it’s US based and not free I don’t use it.
Qwant (french) got its own indexing.
Edit: the linked article isn’t about search engines but big tech companies.
Ecosia (Germany) does too. They work together with Qwant on that.
Both don’t exclusively use their own indexing, and still depend on Google and Bing for part of their results. But you have to start somewhere
Qwant is fricken awesome, it’s as good as and sometimes even better than Google
Anyone able to chime in on differences with Ecosia?
They’re both very similar.
Both still use Google and Bing for part of their search results (albeit with the search queries somewhat anonymised). And both have been working together on a European search index which they have been slowly rolling out over the past year orso now.
Ecosia differentiates itself from the competition by using part of their profits to plant trees, and by promising that their servers are run on renewable energy.
Personally I use Ecosia over Qwant, because I found the search results for news articles to be a bit better. But ultimately both are very similar.
They plant trees
Is strongly disagree. I have it set as my main web search but it’s often so bad that I have to jump to Google or something else, which I don’t want to do. The only modern truly great one I’ve used in Kagi, but since it’s US based and not free I don’t use it.