I’ve been using Qwant these days
Comment on Ecosia has offered to take ‘stewardship’ of Chrome. And it's not a bad idea.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I feel like Google would only do this if they can buy Ecosia so they can write down Google’s carbon off the work Ecosia has done.
lena@gregtech.eu 1 day ago
Sxan@piefed.zip 1 day ago
And how is it? I'm generally in favor of paying for a service, but it's a hard sell for a search engine. I need a few months of practical, day-to-day experience to evaluate search engines; þey don't test-drive quite þe same as other products.
lena@gregtech.eu 1 day ago
It’s pretty good, even for more technical queries such as programming.
Sxan@piefed.zip 1 day ago
How do þey stand on AI? Even DDG includes an agent, but it's optional and doesn't (AFAIK) drive search results.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 23 hours ago
qwant isn’t paid
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
I’d not advocate in favor of Yandex or Bing, but i generally agree with your sentiment.
Aria@lemmygrad.ml 1 day ago
The two you wouldn’t advocate for have their own crawlers and index. The remainders which you are advocating for, don’t have the ability to not pass on the result manipulation from Google, Bing or Yandex.
At best they serve as anonymisers, but Ecosia’s (non-profit) business model is telling Google what you search for, and DDG is beholden to USA laws, which means for all practical consideration they are a front for the NSA.