Startpage? (based in Netherlands). I mean it’s a frontend for google, but ecosia is a frontend for bing. And startpage has a no log policy which beats ecosia.
Startpage gives very good results, I recall reading somewhere that they (might?) use search results from Google, but I honestly don’t know. I use it over Ecosia because it has slightly better results and is more privacy focused. Plus I never click any adverts, so Ecosia wouldn’t generate an awful lot of trees from my usage haha.
I also used Qwant, but the search results weren’t great for more complex search queries.
Yeah, websearch is a huge undertaking, there is an European initiative but it’s not ready for use … Can’t find it now though, ironically. It wasn’t the one by Ecosia and Qwant but a European Union initated research project.
Startpage? (based in Netherlands). I mean it’s a frontend for google, but ecosia is a frontend for bing. And startpage has a no log policy which beats ecosia.
System1 acquired Startpage and there are based in the US.
Startpage gives very good results, I recall reading somewhere that they (might?) use search results from Google, but I honestly don’t know. I use it over Ecosia because it has slightly better results and is more privacy focused. Plus I never click any adverts, so Ecosia wouldn’t generate an awful lot of trees from my usage haha.
I also used Qwant, but the search results weren’t great for more complex search queries.
Yeah, websearch is a huge undertaking, there is an European initiative but it’s not ready for use … Can’t find it now though, ironically. It wasn’t the one by Ecosia and Qwant but a European Union initated research project.