Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️Dec 8, 2022

About a Quant #SearchEngine co-founder. Was it ever about ethical computing or always just about money and prestige? Personal drivers matter...

France’s Mr. Privacy turns cybersnooper – POLITICO

How the disgraced co-founder of France’s answer to Google moved into the murky world of cybersurveillance.

https://www.politico.eu/article/frances-mr-privacy-turns-cybersnooper/

France’s Mr. Privacy turns cybersnooper

How the disgraced co-founder of France’s answer to Google moved into the murky world of cybersurveillance.

POLITICO
Show threadArjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️Dec 8, 2022

Oh and after wasting 50M€ of public money #Qwant is now partially Chinese through Huawei.

We really need our project OpenWebSearch.EU to succeed in making at least a step forward, that much is clear!

Show threadggdupontDec 10, 2022
@arjen at least it's providing some balance to the all-US search engines dominating the market 
Show threadArjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️
@ggdupont they write it used Bing
Dec 10, 2022 at 3:40pmWeb