European Parliament ditches Google for French search firm over privacy concerns
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.
https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-ditches-google-for-french-search-engine/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
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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.
Just use Tampermonkey, ublock origin or I don't care abour cookies to zap the popup.
Qant is top notch. I use it on a daily basis.
I use Qwant on my PCs and Ecosia on my phone until I have decided which is best.
They share the same index AFAIK. They signed a collab contract. I stayed with Qwant for the UI.
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?
Idk, but both are great. It's just a matter of personal preference IMHO.
It's nice, but why not Xprivo? It is even more independent.
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.
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/
Do you people not understand France is a bad choice by jurisdiction? No one remembers the black boxes or French law or the generally lax security that makes spying easy for 5 eyes and China? Like, this doesn't stop spying, this stops some advertising.
I'm disappointed. You can do better Europe.
Like what
I assume he means that changing browser in the European Parliament is virtue signaling and that they could have done much more important changes.
Personally I hope that they plan for changes that makes an impact but that it takes time and they are announcing this and more small improvements/virtue signaling until the bigger things can be presented.
Actually it's France and their laws and black boxes.