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EU Search engine incoming: Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index (blog.ecosia.org)

submitted 22 hours ago by Kualdir@feddit.nl to c/buyfromeu@feddit.org

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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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[–] Extrawurst@feddit.org 46 points 22 hours ago (11 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

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

i mean you kinda need to specify what you want from a map, there are a bunch of things that google maps is actively the worst at

[–] Extrawurst@feddit.org 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

For sure, one specific thing is being able to find a restaurant in the vicinity, seeing some kind of review system of its reception, and knowing if it’s open or not and having a link to a menu or its homepage. Another (albeit extremely specific) case is looking up a secondhand store in the vicinity of where I am - I tried this with here wego when I was out recently but it showed me a store that no longer existed. Of course might be a unlucky coincidence (google maps for sure has nonexisting stores too), but I’m 0 for 1 atm.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 hours ago

best alternative would probably be something like tripadvisor, for restaurants

obviously it's not exactly a vastly less shitty option, but at least it's not google.

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