Mojeek (UK-based) is trying. I wasn’t super impressed by their index yet, though.
hossein@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
I’d rather let some EU company like Qwant use my anonymized data, to hopefully someday build their own index, than use Google by proxy (except when neccessary, of course).
hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Good news, they are doing just that (in cooperation with Ecosia)
VonReposti@feddit.dk 1 month ago
That is some unexpectedly good news. I’m looking forward to see the results of an EU based search index.
u_u@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Good moves from Ecosia. They used to get some flack for using Bing and Google.
ArchRecord@lemm.ee 1 month ago
The entire reason I stopped using them was because they agreed to share more user data with Google and Microsoft in return for being allowed to keep using their search results. If they had an independent index without those kinds of tracking for big tech companies, I’d switch back in a heartbeat.