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European search is improving. Ecosia and Qwant are compared to Google, plus privacy, ads, sustainability and the realism behind Staan.

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[-] thechosen2nd@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Ecosia is using chat-gpt, still depending on US tech. I'm using qwant ay the moment

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago

Both ecosia and qwuant also use google/Bing for search results, event if they are starting to use their own index a little bit. Give it time.

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