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tweetle_beetletoday at 10:10 AM2 repliesview on HN

It's a noble effort, but they're so late to the game that it's hard to see them making a significant dent. I hope I'm wrong.

They were:

> aiming to serve 30% of French search queries [by end of 2025]

https://blog.ecosia.org/launching-our-european-search-index/


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johnoftheseatoday at 10:21 AM

Better late than never.

> The French index is at an advanced stage of completion, we have started creating the German language index, and the English one should start shortly. All progress is quickly integrated into the Qwant STAAN API.

https://noc.social/@327ppm/115934198650900394

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Gigachadtoday at 10:18 AM

I feel like soon there won’t even be a point having a search engine since almost the entire internet will be useless AI slop.

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