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Your guide to switching Search Engines and supporting smaller and more ethical companies! (europe.pub)
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[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Weren't quant and ecosia both just google and bing proxies?

[–] tfm@europe.pub 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Yes but they are teaming up now to create their own index

https://blog.ecosia.org/eusp/

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Looking forward to it, but might take a while before the English internet is indexed by them: "Starting in 2025, our new index will be added into the database pool to serve results in both the French and German language. We are starting small and in the home countries of both Qwant and Ecosia respectively. "

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago

oh heck, nice!

[–] undernajo@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Cool!

[–] Fishamatician@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I thought duckduckgo was just using bing in the background as well.

It feels a bit like mobile phone providers, 3 big networks and all the rest just piggy back those with slimmer margins.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I just checked, duckduckgo uses bing, and has tracking for their ads