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EU Search engine incoming: Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index (blog.ecosia.org)
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For the people who have not yet decided on a search engine. The most EU way you can go is Ecosia or Qwant as they are building their own search index.

Ecosia is my personal pick as its also aimed at planting trees and they have quite a good browser alongside it.

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[–] Extrawurst@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Great! Ecosia works super well, and it feels good to not having to rely on google to find things. Only thing I’d wish for is that they’d have some map service or similar to find restaurants and shop. There is sadly no good replacement for google maps that I’ve found

[–] StrangeMed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Try Here WeGo maps, it's the closest one to Google maps but European

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ecosia works well enough for me too. The tree planting thing should never be forgotten. The scope of their work is impressive and they're very transparent about their goals and funding. No other search engine comes close to that.

[–] Comptero@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The tree planting sounds so much like greenwashing and an excuse to serve ads

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

200 million trees. Far from greenwashing.

Folks, critical thinking is more important than ever these days. Making conclusions based on a brain fart - when we have the internet at our fingertips - is partly why the world is the way it is.