I still must use Google for some queries. Google is best for me at these kinds of queries:

• Finding products in online stores that ship to Sverige. I try to avoid buying from Amazon.

• Location-specific queries, like plant-based restaurants near me.

• English queries that only have answers in Svenska, like various government regulations.

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Concluding my experiment with Qwant as my default search engine after a little over a week.

I returned to DuckDuckGo as my default search engine.

In general, Qwant’s results seemed almost as relevant as DDG.

Qwant does not provide quick answers. Queries like “convert 1 USD to EUR”, “convert 200F to C”, and “time in CDT” should just give me an answer.

Qwant does not support !bangs. I use !npm !cargo !w daily.

https://duckduckgo.com/bangs

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@wolfgang_oels That’s impressive in such a short amount of time. What are the biggest challenges to increasing that percentage? Index size, results relevancy, results speed?

Is there an equivalent of Google Search Console or Bing Webmaster Tools for the new EUSP index yet?

What could @openwebsearcheu do to be more useful to EUSP’s efforts so they are not duplicated?

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@wolfgang_oels Thanks. https://betterweb.qwant.com/en/2024/11/08/ecosia-and-qwant-join-forces-to-develop-european-search-index/ also was useful.

Any update on progress made since November last year?

What percentage of FR or DE language searches today are handled by EUSP infrastructure without assistance from Google or Bing?

Does EUP use the indexing datasets produced by @openwebsearcheu?

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