Mastodawn

We’re teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index
https://blog.ecosia.org/eusp/

> Currently, we rely on a mix of both Google and Bing libraries to provide you with answers to your searches. Starting in 2025, our new index will be added into the database pool to serve results in both the French and German language. We are starting small and in the home countries of both Qwant and Ecosia respectively.

Good to hear.

We’re teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index

We are proud to share the next step in our journey towards tech independence: building our very own search index!

The Ecosia Blog

Finally, 👌

que :verifried:Mar 10, 2025

@rysiek very cool!
and then can we work on federating all the search engines...?
:D

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Techsorcist Mar 10, 2025

@rysiek Any progress update? Seeing as this article is 3 months old.

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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Mar 10, 2025

@thijsje o idea, I also just saw it, so I shared it

And perhaps #Ecosia can team up with more European initiatives like Mastodon, in stead of promoting these: 🤔

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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Mar 10, 2025

@voorstad as I don't work for Ecosia, I am not the best target of that message. You might want to consider pinging Ecosia directly.

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Xardas Mar 10, 2025

@voorstad I suspect they are simply on social where there are more users. It's a niche search engine, and promoting yourself on a niche platform would be silly from a marketing point of view. As far as I can see, Ecosia also uses Amazon's servers. So it's not as European as we'd like it to be.