Since I've been seeing a lot of "switch to Ecosia for search they are sustainable and European" hints lately your evaluation might soon change:
Their boss explicitly wants not just to add "AI" to search but go all in on more "AI" tools. (Which sucks, I was thinking about applying for the CTO job there but I won't waste my time seeing that)
(Article in German) https://t3n.de/news/ecosia-ceo-in-drei-monaten-sind-wir-die-groesste-ki-app-europas-1726345/
Huh.
"In addition to excluding neocities.org from search results, when we discovered the block, Bing was also placing what appeared to be a phishing attack against Neocities on the first page of search results."
https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01/27/bing-block
#neocities #indieweb #websites #tech #technology #microsoft #bing #search
RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115973555484553518
🤔 This is *not* a good look.
Is Bing actively trying to stifle the #indieWeb & the #smallWeb ? Who knows!
Regardless - what you can do:
- pick a different search engine if you are using Bing. #DuckDuckGo, #Qwant, #Startpage come to mind as great first picks.
- start up your own little #indieWeb #smallWeb site! Share what you like. It doesn't have to be complicated. A small blog, a digital garden.
- seek out #webrings, share content from small/indie sites that you enjoy!
Vaihdoin reilu viikko sitten selaimen oletushakukoneeksi Qwantin Googlen sijaan. Haut ovat toimineet, joten Qwant saa jäädä. 🤓
Pari huomiota itsestäni.
(1) Vaikka olen aika AI-kriittinen ihminen, huomasin ensin kaipaavani AI-tiivistyksiä. Onneksi tuosta oppii pois.
(2) Googlen temumaisuus, eli verkkokauppatuotteiden puuttuminen hakutuloksista särähti ensin silmään. Olin jo niin tottunut siihen, että hakutuloksissakin tyrkytetään tuotteita ja yllytetään ostamaan.
Vaihdoin reilu viikko sitten selaimen oletushakukoneeksi Qwantin Googlen sijaan. Haut ovat toimineet, joten Qwant saa jäädä. 🤓
Pari huomiota itsestäni.
(1) Vaikka olen aika AI-kriittinen ihminen, huomasin ensin kaipaavani AI-tiivistyksiä. Onneksi tuosta oppii pois.
(2) Googlen temumaisuus, eli verkkokauppatuotteiden puuttuminen hakutuloksista särähti ensin silmään. Olin jo niin tottunut siihen, että hakutuloksissakin tyrkytetään tuotteita ja yllytetään ostamaan.
RE: https://piaille.fr/@faycal/115911366689520280
💡 Je suis d'accord avec la plupart des alternatives citées, sauf au moins 2 :
- #OnlyOffice à remplacer par #CollaboraOnline qui est un "vrai projet libre", vraiment transparent, avec une vraie communauté, et une intégration parfaite dans #Nextcloud. OnlyOffice est un projet open-core et exploite le format de fichiers de #Microsoft (#openXML).
- #Qwant a longtemps été une véritable blague en raison de sa forte dépendance de Microsoft (des progrès sont en cours, mais grande méfiance !)
🌎 « Choisissons l'Europe aujourd'hui pour que demain nous n'ayons pas à choisir comment défendre le Groenland. »
💡 Je suis d'accord avec la plupart des alternatives citées, sauf au moins 2 :
- #OnlyOffice à remplacer par #CollaboraOnline qui est un "vrai projet libre", vraiment transparent, avec une vraie communauté, et une intégration parfaite dans #Nextcloud. OnlyOffice est un projet open-core et exploite le format de fichiers de #Microsoft (#openXML).
- #Qwant a longtemps été une véritable blague en raison de sa forte dépendance de Microsoft (des progrès sont en cours, mais grande méfiance !)
Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories.
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
@parismarx thanks Paris! I’m not a tech guy but not a neophyte either. Just sick of feeling powerless
#Vivaldi, #Proton #anytimeplayer #qwant are tools that work just fine for my needs and there really hasn’t been anything difficult to understand in the transition. Having issues with Vivaldi RSS but it’s just me, have never used one before but would love to get off #apple news.
2025 FOSS tools I use
Notes
#TangentNotes @tangentnotes
Browser
#Librewolf @librewolf
#Waterfox @Waterfox
Search
#Mojeek @Mojeek
#Ecosia @ecosia
#Qwant @Qwant
___
Sharing to @opensource
The overhead of disabling every single AI-first change in Firefox is already starting to weigh on firefox-forks.
My view on this hasn't really shifted in the last few months: unless an existing organization, with strong principles, steps forwards and commits to a hard fork I don't really see a future for Firefox.
(I think there are probably only 1-2 orgs with the combination of experience / maturity to actually pull that off, and none of them seem to be even considering that kind of future)
@sarahjamielewis not sure whether #firefox forks like in @iode's #iodéOS can also offer "AI disable by default" or remove any #AI code, but it seems a legitimite way to go. Also, it will be an #EU country to handle such modifications. #France #digitalsouvereignity
"""
iodé Browser
iodé browser is based on Firefox with #telemetry disabled, trackers removed, and alternative search engines: #Qwant (default), #Brave, #Ecosia, #Metager, Qwant light, #Startpage and several #Searx instances.
"""
https://iode.tech/iodeos/
2025 FOSS tools I use
Notes
#TangentNotes @tangentnotes
Browser
#Librewolf @librewolf
#Waterfox @Waterfox
Search
#Mojeek @Mojeek
#Ecosia @ecosia
#Qwant @Qwant
___
Sharing to @opensource
“An extremely negative signal”: French court dismisses search engine Qwant's case against Microsoft
"In a ruling handed down on Thursday, the Competition Authority found that Microsoft did not abuse its dominant position. This is a setback for Qwant, which is seeking to break free from its dependence on the American giant.
The verdict is in, and it does not favor Qwant. The French search engine, which has been engaged in legal proceedings for nearly a year against Microsoft, accusing it of abusing its dominant position in the B2B search engine market, has been dismissed by the Competition Authority.
In its verdict handed down on Thursday, the authority found that Qwant had not provided “sufficient evidence” to demonstrate that the American giant was dominant in the market in question, nor that “the conditions for abuse of economic dependence were met.”
Archive: https://archive.is/q5NRx
@ueeu The press release is indeed not convincing. #Qwant may be developing its own search technology ( #ESP, with #ecosia), but until they develop it, they are dependent on #Bing. The fact that #Microsoft imposes restrictions on the development of #ESP demonstrates and strengthens that dependence. #antitrust
“An extremely negative signal”: French court dismisses search engine Qwant's case against Microsoft
"In a ruling handed down on Thursday, the Competition Authority found that Microsoft did not abuse its dominant position. This is a setback for Qwant, which is seeking to break free from its dependence on the American giant.
The verdict is in, and it does not favor Qwant. The French search engine, which has been engaged in legal proceedings for nearly a year against Microsoft, accusing it of abusing its dominant position in the B2B search engine market, has been dismissed by the Competition Authority.
In its verdict handed down on Thursday, the authority found that Qwant had not provided “sufficient evidence” to demonstrate that the American giant was dominant in the market in question, nor that “the conditions for abuse of economic dependence were met.”
Archive: https://archive.is/q5NRx
Quali alternative a Google Search? Se volete riappropriarvi della privacy nelle vostre ricerche ecco qualche motori di ricerca alternativo!
https://www.lealternative.net/2019/10/18/alternative-a-google-search/
The Qwant search engine buys its French competitor Lilo 🇫🇷
https://www.lecho.be/entreprises/tech-science/le-moteur-de-recherche-qwant-rachete-son-concurrent-francais-lilo/10607272.html
#BuyEuropean#EuropeanAlternatives#Qwant#Lilo#SearchEngine
Twórcy przeglądarek internetowych mają często interes w tym, żeby nakłaniać do korzystania z tej czy innej wyszukiwarki. Nie bez powodu któraś konkretnie jest ustawiona jako domyślna. Ale możecie zrobić z tym porządek i ustawić, jako domyślną, dowolną wyszukiwarkę. Wystarczy postępować zgodnie z instrukcją (przykład opisany na #Firefox). Ja na przykład ustawiłem sobie teraz #Qwant. Wcześniej miałem Startpage, Ecosia i DuckDuckGo. Nie przywiązuję się do jednej konkretnej. Ostatnio bardzo mieszam i sprawdzam, która jak sobie działa.
