Historically, they have both been relying mostly on the Bing index, with Qwant building its own index for a while and serving a mix.
I’ve been carefully optimistic about this - even if ecosia and qwant decide to start heavily serve ads it still means we have an alternative which will supplement privacy focused frontends and metasearch engines.
Both already mostly relied mostly on ads before this partnership. Nothing changed. But perhaps they will need less ads if running their own search index is cheaper than using Bing’s.
Would love this. Hopefully Qwant and Ecosia can make it happen soon.
Either way, I use ecosia without as blockers because I want this to happen asap.
I hope it’ll be opensource…
I hope the engine isn’t called “eusp”, but other than that, really excited for this!
UK based, interesting, first time I hear about it. How good is it? Maybe they could make a trio.
That’s really gEUd to hear! I’ll give it a try
Read about this the other day - a great collab!
Nice. I’ll keep an eye on this!
