I know it won’t compare to google/bing etc but is there a European search engine that is reasonable?
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There are European search engines, but they use the Bing or Google search index. Ecosia and Qwant are working together on their own search index, which will be launched this year. But it will be years before they can completely free themselves from their American dependency.
r/BuyFromEU Check here. There are a lot of people recommending stuff here.
There’s Qwant, Startpage and Ecosia, they’re all great and I use Qwant.
Not EU but British search engine Mojeek is pretty good
I use Qwant for my everyday searches, although sometimes (let’s say 5% of the time) it gives less (or worse) results than Google.
Seznam.cz Czech search engine, they still have significant share in Czechia. Around 20% of searches in cz are done via sezmam.cz
Well, Russia’s Yandex is probably the best search engine in the world. At least if you want to find a video or picture of something. They also have a version for the EU without censorship and one-sided news.
I know Qwant (French), Ecosia (German) and Startpage (Dutch) but a quick search should give you more options. Maybe try that next time before asking on Reddit.
Qwant is getting good.
Not exactly European but I use searxng now.
Hosting my own instance but there are a bunch publicly available.
Given how much the EU censors stuff I wouldn’t use it. Google is already the digital Pravda of 2025, we don’t need another one
I use Startpage and Vivaldi asy browser. Both work great.
I use Qwant and it’s great. They are making their own index over the following year.
I use Mistral’s Le Chat as a search engine. Results are pretty good.
It used to be Yandex, and a ton of other tools from Russia an Belorus, which is why you’ll understand Why exactly getting Russian *people* onboard with the EU, so we’re clear not the ones who merely have a Russian passport, but ones who’re in Europe and are European. Which is exactly why USA doesn’t want Russia to be independent or for the war to end , politically & economically, from their own kleptocratic class, and which is why they’ll aim to support Putin’s kleptocracy in Russia and the equivalent of it, whoever will be in power, in Ukraine.
Otherwise Europe has no independent search engine.
You have the same catastrophic situation in multiphysics simulations (where companies have been acquired by multinationals run from the US) and integrated circuit design (again the 2 remaining Open Source non-American alternatives are from Russia and France). Incidentally those are also parts of the toolchain you need to maintain your nuclear sovereignty.
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There are European search engines, but they use the Bing or Google search index. Ecosia and Qwant are working together on their own search index, which will be launched this year. But it will be years before they can completely free themselves from their American dependency.
r/BuyFromEU Check here. There are a lot of people recommending stuff here.
There’s Qwant, Startpage and Ecosia, they’re all great and I use Qwant.
Not EU but British search engine Mojeek is pretty good
I use Qwant for my everyday searches, although sometimes (let’s say 5% of the time) it gives less (or worse) results than Google.
Seznam.cz Czech search engine, they still have significant share in Czechia. Around 20% of searches in cz are done via sezmam.cz
Well, Russia’s Yandex is probably the best search engine in the world. At least if you want to find a video or picture of something. They also have a version for the EU without censorship and one-sided news.
I know Qwant (French), Ecosia (German) and Startpage (Dutch) but a quick search should give you more options. Maybe try that next time before asking on Reddit.
Qwant is getting good.
Not exactly European but I use searxng now.
Hosting my own instance but there are a bunch publicly available.
Given how much the EU censors stuff I wouldn’t use it. Google is already the digital Pravda of 2025, we don’t need another one
I use Startpage and Vivaldi asy browser. Both work great.
I use Qwant and it’s great. They are making their own index over the following year.
I use Mistral’s Le Chat as a search engine. Results are pretty good.
It used to be Yandex, and a ton of other tools from Russia an Belorus, which is why you’ll understand Why exactly getting Russian *people* onboard with the EU, so we’re clear not the ones who merely have a Russian passport, but ones who’re in Europe and are European. Which is exactly why USA doesn’t want Russia to be independent or for the war to end , politically & economically, from their own kleptocratic class, and which is why they’ll aim to support Putin’s kleptocracy in Russia and the equivalent of it, whoever will be in power, in Ukraine.
Otherwise Europe has no independent search engine.
You have the same catastrophic situation in multiphysics simulations (where companies have been acquired by multinationals run from the US) and integrated circuit design (again the 2 remaining Open Source non-American alternatives are from Russia and France). Incidentally those are also parts of the toolchain you need to maintain your nuclear sovereignty.