For completeness, I checked: Start Page private search, Netherlands location, uses "search providers" so not doing their own web crawling. DuckDuckGo US based. Use their own web crawler. I have been using them for a year or two. Mar. 4, 2025 21:15:51 Ron via linux <linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org>: > Eric Marceau via linux wrote on 2025-03-04 17:39: > >> 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/) > > Fantastic! > > > I hadn't checked up on them since at least a year ago and was disappointed that my initial thinking was wrong. > > > So pleased to see progress - thanks for pointing this out! > > > To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org