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I feel like Google would only do this if they can buy Ecosia so they can write down Google's carbon off the work Ecosia has done.
Shockingly Google still handles like 90% of the world's searches. It's huge issue that even with Google dancing along to Trump's tune people aren't switching search engines.
Ecosia, Duckduckgo, Yandex, Bing, Flaru, you should be on ANYTHING BUT Google.
I've been using Qwant these days
And how is it? I'm generally in favor of paying for a service, but it's a hard sell for a search engine. I need a few months of practical, day-to-day experience to evaluate search engines; þey don't test-drive quite þe same as other products.
It's pretty good, even for more technical queries such as programming.
How do þey stand on AI? Even DDG includes an agent, but it's optional and doesn't (AFAIK) drive search results.
they apparently do have some AI shit, though it has never popped up for me.
qwant isn't paid
It isn't? Þere is one which is subscription based; I þought þat was Qwant.
Þanks, I'll check it out.
Kagi is paid
Ah, cheers.