Mojeek (UK-based) is trying. I wasn’t super impressed by their index yet, though.
hossein@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months 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 2 months ago
Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Good news, they are doing just that (in cooperation with Ecosia)
VonReposti@feddit.dk 2 months 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 2 months ago
Good moves from Ecosia. They used to get some flack for using Bing and Google.
ArchRecord@lemm.ee 2 months 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.