ooli3@sopuli.xyz to A Boring Dystopia@mander.xyz · 2 months agoGoogle is the Internetimagemessage-square34linkfedilinkarrow-up1286arrow-down124
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minus-squareFeydaikin@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 months agoI think it’s less a matter of making them as it is about getting people to use them. Half of these are fairly big projects, both the making and the maintenance of. So there needs to be a sizable amount of people actually using the products to make it worth the effort.
minus-squareideonek@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoWith the exception of YouTube and maybe android, all seems to have a suitable alternative.
minus-squaredecipher_jeanne@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoQwant has its own indexer now irc
minus-squareMultiplexer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoI am actually using Qwant, but thought they relied on Bing? Did that change?
minus-squareLoki@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-22 months agoPartially, I think. There is an joint venture on creating an independent European search infrastructure. I have heard Qwant using it for the French market but not sure about other regions. Article (French): https://www.clubic.com/actualite-568917-l-alliance-qwant-ecosia-se-concretise-avec-une-premiere-brique-independante-de-google-et-microsoft.html
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I think it’s less a matter of making them as it is about getting people to use them.
Half of these are fairly big projects, both the making and the maintenance of.
So there needs to be a sizable amount of people actually using the products to make it worth the effort.
With the exception of YouTube and maybe android, all seems to have a suitable alternative.
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Qwant has its own indexer now irc
I am actually using Qwant, but thought they relied on Bing?
Did that change?
Partially, I think. There is an joint venture on creating an independent European search infrastructure. I have heard Qwant using it for the French market but not sure about other regions.
Article (French):
https://www.clubic.com/actualite-568917-l-alliance-qwant-ecosia-se-concretise-avec-une-premiere-brique-independante-de-google-et-microsoft.html