European Parliament Ditches Google For French Search Firm (politico.eu)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/06/02/1840204/european-parliament-ditches-google-for-french-search-firm
- Source link: https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-ditches-google-for-french-search-engine/
> As of Thursday June 4, "Qwant will replace Google as default search engine on European Parliament computers," officials told lawmakers in an email seen by POLITICO. The change is being made "in line with the Parliament's commitment to digital sovereignty and the protection of users' personal data." The search-engine switch comes as Brussels doubles down on its push for âoetech sovereignty.â The European Commission will on Wednesday unveil its long-awaited tech sovereignty package aimed at reducing dependence on foreign technology providers and boosting European alternatives.
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> The email described Qwant as a "privacy-focused European search engine" designed to avoid tracking users or collecting personal data. Founded in 2013, Qwant markets itself as a privacy-first alternative to Google. Searches conducted through the address bar in Firefox and Edge browsers will automatically be routed through Qwant, although lawmakers will remain free to use competing search engines or change their default settings.
[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-ditches-google-for-french-search-engine/
Can it please be called... (Score:2)
"Le Goog" ?
De'sole', pas de'sole'.
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> "Le Goog" ?
> De'sole', pas de'sole'.
Slashdot supports French accents strait with one single char only, here:
Désolé, pas désolé.
If your keyboard doesn't support French, you can even use html acute, circ and grave, hit reply to view the relevant codes:
Désolé, pas désolé
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I wrote that on Linux generating a single char to store in Slashdot database: ç â é è ê
Furthermore, html é will work everywhere for sure.
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Does it? Let's see what Ubuntu does ...
Désolé, pas désolé
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"Slashdot supports French accents strait with one single char only,"
Maybe you mean straight .
strait (with no gh) refers to a narrow body of water (Hormuz is closed at the moment )
Dire Straits used to make some pretty good music (is Mark Knopfler still alive?)
Go to google.com and search for qwant (Score:4, Funny)
I went to google and searched for qwant, just to annoy google :)
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I tried on Bing, just to annoy Google.
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir? (Score:2)
Google never answers this right. Maybe Qwant will.
Je suis feeling lucky! (Score:3)
:-P
Any good? (Score:1)
Has anyone here done first-hand testing?
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China? China ?? You mean the "Euros" haven't written a snappy web search engine in 25 years ? What ... were they doing ? Yeah yeah I know about Budweiser, but still ...
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They operate in China... there's no Chinese connection besides that. I think Anonymous Coward is a broken bot.
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WTF?
uhh, it have China word, run!! better yet, call then Communist search engine, that is even better!! lets add more words that scares US People!!
So your argument is that qwant is chinese because it works in china... just like many american companies... you know that apple follow chinese requirements in china too, right? That do not make it chinese.
Re:Any good? (Score:4, Interesting)
Yes
i use qwant for my main browser and startpage for the secondary one and sometimes try the duckduckgo in a third one
qwant works fine, a little slower than google, but i imagine that the hardware that google have available is several times bigger than qwant may have.
Results, for what i search (mostly tech related info) work well, don't miss google and if something do not show up, i try a different engine
startpage, in the past it looks that most results are from google anyway and while it had zero ads, now it also have some too. It works fine
duckduckgo, while i use this one less, it is also for some reasons, i like less the results, seems to return more sites that have some of the words but not all, making the results less useful
So usually use all these engines and very rarely end use google, mostly by accident in browsers with new profiles or in other people computers
Google right now is overrated, just like altavista got heavy, full of trash and got less useful results with time, google arrived and took them over with clean page and good results. I feel that google is in the same path, results work but the junk also, ads annoying and now AI... it is in the path of being replaced
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I periodically try Duck, Duck, Go, and promptly revert to Brave. I'll try searching in DDG for the exact text of the title of an article, blog post, tech support post, etc., and it doesn't find it, even on major sites like MS. DDG always leaves me scratching my head, wondering what internet they're indexing. I'll give qwant a try and see how it fairs.
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At this point how could anyone do any worse?