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[–] Beacon@fedia.io 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Qwant is fricken awesome, it's as good as and sometimes even better than Google

[–] hash@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Anyone able to chime in on differences with Ecosia?

[–] Humanius@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

They're both very similar.

Both still use Google and Bing for part of their search results (albeit with the search queries somewhat anonymised). And both have been working together on a European search index which they have been slowly rolling out over the past year orso now.

Ecosia differentiates itself from the competition by using part of their profits to plant trees, and by promising that their servers are run on renewable energy.

Personally I use Ecosia over Qwant, because I found the search results for news articles to be a bit better. But ultimately both are very similar.

[–] saxrussell@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago

They plant trees

[–] M137@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago

Is strongly disagree. I have it set as my main web search but it's often so bad that I have to jump to Google or something else, which I don't want to do. The only modern truly great one I've used in Kagi, but since it's US based and not free I don't use it.