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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] 5 points 3 hours ago

Is either one worth the switch from duckduckgo?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Great! Ecosia works super well, and it feels good to not having to rely on google to find things. Only thing I’d wish for is that they’d have some map service or similar to find restaurants and shop. There is sadly no good replacement for google maps that I’ve found

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

Ecosia works well enough for me too. The tree planting thing should never be forgotten. The scope of their work is impressive and they're very transparent about their goals and funding. No other search engine comes close to that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago

Both are great! In my experience Qwant gives better search results, so thats what i use. I even prefer Qwant's results over Google's. But Ecosia is a great option as well because of the tree planting.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Any News on when this will go live?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

1H 2025 in France and Germany

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 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 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 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 2 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Was using startpage the entire time but because of this i'll try out qwant.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Good thing I recently changed my standard search engine to Wcosia!