While the "Bing" reference may have been true for the past, they have
been working to move away from that and are on the verge of severing
that tie imminently, according to their web site news:
(From:
https://betterweb.qwant.com/en/2024/11/08/ecosia-and-qwant-join-forces-to-develop-european-search-index/)
European search engine tech to go-live in 2025
EUSP will develop a privacy-first search index, which will be used
by both Ecosia and Qwant. Unlike proprietary solutions, EUSP’s index
will be available to other independent search engines and technology
companies. Both firms will continue existing back-end tech
partnerships to ensure the best possible results and product for
their respective user-base.
The firm has plans to */start serving Qwant and Ecosia’s
France-based search engine traffic by the Q1 in 2025/*. Qwant CEO
Olivier Abecassis <https://www.linkedin.com/in/olivierabecassis>
will run the new venture, with Ecosia supporting financially and
consulting with relevant expertise. The existing engineering Qwant
team and their developments will be transferred to EUSP in the
beginning of 2025, once approvals from stakeholders have been
processed. This will expand to also include a significant portion of
traffic in Germany by the end of next year.
Eric
On 2025-03-04 18:37, Ron via linux wrote:
Eric Marceau via linux wrote on 2025-03-04 15:13:
As a first suggestion, I will offer up *Qwant*
https://www.qwant.com/?l=en)
I'm quite happy with Qwant (a France-based company), although if
looking for images, I still use DDG.
However, when doing so, care must be taken that the site is not just
"*fronting*" for Google, like some of the "green-funding" search sites.
Um, Qwant doesn't do their own indexing, they front Bing.
There was talk of them doing a web crawler, but I don't think that
went very far, sadly.
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