@Techmeme@techhub.socialEmail: the EU Parliament plans to replace Google with the French search engine Qwant as the default search tool on its computers, seeking digital sovereignty (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-ditches-google-for-french-ā¦
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzBeen using Qwant.com (EU's search engine) in place of Google or any of the various 'Bing-also-rans' as my default for a month or so... works very well. Not pushing 'AI' on me, though it seems they're trying to offer it as well. It'll be crucial to me that I can configure my use to avoid it.
@jonquark@mastodon.org.ukOh no... In playing with altermative search engines I installed this firefox extension in my mobile browser:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/qwant
Which I think is a malicious version of the real one (which didn't show up in my search as it's not eā¦
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgThis is a bigger deal than people may think. I've often wondered how much my life (as a fluent tri lingual) has been impoverished by all my tech interactions being in English by default. Especially search!
For example, I want a search engine that seeks across languages and finds me the top results in any language that I have told it I can speak.
