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EU Search engine incoming: Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index (blog.ecosia.org)
submitted 11 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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For the people who have not yet decided on a search engine. The most EU way you can go is Ecosia or Qwant as they are building their own search index.

Ecosia is my personal pick as its also aimed at planting trees and they have quite a good browser alongside it.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Any News on when this will go live?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

1H 2025 in France and Germany

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

1H for Qwant and its indexing of French websites. 2H for Exosia and its indexing of German websites.

The index is expected to start serving France-based search engine traffic for Ecosia and Qwant by the first quarter of next year. It will then expand to include a “significant portion” of traffic in Germany by the end of 2025. English would be the third language they’d look to add, the pair said, adding that more European languages could follow in the future if momentum builds.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/11/ecosia-and-qwant-two-european-search-engines-join-forces-on-building-an-index-to-shrink-reliance-on-big-tech/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

1H?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

half

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I've never seen "1H" used before for what I'm guessing means Q3. Where's that from?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I'm pushing 40, have a mind like a steel trap for phrases and terms that crop up in pop culture, and have a business degree. I have never heard "H1" or "H2" before, let alone "1H". To me that suggests that it's not a common term in British or American English and instead is common in another language. Kind of like Swedes and numbering the weeks of the year (perhaps the other Scandinavian countries do it too), or the various languages that interpret "half one" as meaning halfway to one (i.e. 1230) rather than half past (1330).

Of course it could just be a bizarre blindspot and it's passed me by but damnit, I'm curious now!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I think it is a central European thing where we used to structure the business year into two halfs - erstes Halbjahr and zweites Halbjahr - in regards to reports etc while the anglosphere has tended to structure it into quarters. And it's still done for things like release dates. But don't quote me on that, as I have no sources.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

impressive! :) its used in austria. i wrongly assumed its used in the english too.