Berlin-based non-profit search engine Ecosia has asked a U.S. judge to turn Chrome into a foundation it controls, funding billions in climate projects.
I don’t see Ecosia being able to put up enough money
Ecosia has offered to take ‘stewardship’ of Chrome. And it's not a bad idea.
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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
fox2263@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Better them than the shit stain perplexity
o_d@lemmygrad.ml 1 day ago
Google would maintain intellectual property ownership, and can even continue to be the default search engine. When the decade is up, stewardship could be passed to another, or otherwise reviewed.
Ecosia, which uses Google to power its search engine, already has a revenue-share partnership with the tech giant. And it already offers its own browser built on the Chromium open source engine that powers Chrome. That’s why Kroll thinks the stewardship idea isn’t so out-of-line. “We would be happy to manage Chrome for them,” he says. Ecosia is even offering to maintain employment for the Chrome staff.
Sounds like they’re offering Google a workaround. They won’t manage it, but all the reasons for the court’s decision get to remain. And then in a decade or whatever, Google will just take it back since they never really relinquished ownership to begin with.
tazeycrazy@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Would like a Google buy out but with extra steps. Will anything change with chromes underlying technology to make it less Google focused
o_d@lemmygrad.ml 1 day ago
My guess is that the appeal will erase the decision. Trump fired all the antitrust experts from the DOJ and replaced them with corporate cronies.
Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
This would be a good thing if it happens.
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.
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.
lena@gregtech.eu 1 day ago
I’ve been using Qwant these days
Sxan@piefed.zip 19 hours 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.