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European Parliament ditches Google for French search firm over privacy concerns (www.politico.eu)

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As of Thursday June 4, "Qwant will replace Google as default search engine on European Parliament computers,” officials told lawmakers in an email seen by POLITICO.

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[-] uuj8za@piefed.social 14 points 3 weeks ago

I've been using Qwant for about a month now. It's pretty good! Search results are fine and the UI looks good.

The only thing I don't like is the dang cookies popup that appears every now and then. It's huge and annoying. Also, I kinda wish they had a paid tier.

I'm still daily driving Kagi, but on machines I don't use Kagi on, I've been making Qwant the default.

[-] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Just use Tampermonkey, ublock origin or I don't care abour cookies to zap the popup.

[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Qant is top notch. I use it on a daily basis.

[-] Kjell@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I use Qwant on my PCs and Ecosia on my phone until I have decided which is best.

[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

They share the same index AFAIK. They signed a collab contract. I stayed with Qwant for the UI.

[-] Kjell@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I have seen that they are developing that, but I didn't know they are using it. When I search for the same thing in I get different results, so maybe they are using different weights even if the index is the same?

[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Idk, but both are great. It's just a matter of personal preference IMHO.

[-] aim4harmony@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's nice, but why not Xprivo? It is even more independent.

[-] Kjell@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Xprivo is an AI chat and it doesn't seem to be updated on the latest things. I asked it when my country play in the world cup and it responded that it might or might not be qualified. So I can see use cases where it would be better to use Qwant than Xprivo.

[-] metalhead_@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

In addition to the AI chat, xPrivo also offers a separate search function. It uses the European search index compiled by Ecosio and Qwant.

https://www.xprivo.com/search/

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