Europe's Ecosia, Qwant unite to create their own search index, targeting Google as it grapples with anti-trust legislation. — Photo by Shutter Speed on Unsplash
LONDON: Christian Kroll has long worried about Europe’s dependence on US Big Tech, but now the head of German search engine Ecosia has a new tool to take on Google and Microsoft.
Ecosia, which uses advertising profits from its 20 million users to plant trees, has partnered with French privacy-focused search engine Qwant to create an index – the back-end database behind search engines – separate from Google Search and Microsoft’s Bing.
