alt Hacker NewsIt's good to differentiate truly independent tech from the unfortunately common government-pushed French-tech that are US-tech rewrapped.
e.g. Qwant is a re-skin of Microsoft Bing
It's a great move overall.
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cybrox • today at 10:56 AM
As far as I know, Qwant indexes itself and substitute with existing crawler results, which seems a reasonable compromise.
Pay08 • today at 10:55 AM
Ok? You could make the same argument about Chinese tech, German tech, or American tech.
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Qwant is working on that. Together with Ecosia they're building their own index called the European Search Perspective:
"Today, Europe receives 99% of the answers to search queries from external infrastructures. We believe, however, that a higher level of digital sovereignty is essential for a functioning democracy and economy. With our new web index, we are creating a European perspective on politics, culture and values. This is a long overdue step towards more plurality in the digital world, which is also being called for by our society."
https://www.eu-searchperspective.com