Tootfinder

Opt-in global Mastodon full text search. Join the index!

@samvarma@fosstodon.org
2026-06-15 03:16:46

This 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.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-02 16:50:55

Email: 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)
politico.eu/article/european-p

@cazfi@social.linux.pizza
2026-05-04 10:50:48

I don't fully understand why firefox provides option to have ecosia as the default search engine in some limited countries only. Anyway, I now set up a plugin to do the same on my main computer.
blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-firefox

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-03-24 06:05:45

Filing: OpenAI petitions the UK CMA to include AI chatbots with search function in Google's mandated default search engine choice screen for Chrome and Android (James Titcomb/Telegraph)
telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/

@jonquark@mastodon.org.uk
2026-05-20 17:00:15

Oh no... In playing with altermative search engines I installed this firefox extension in my mobile browser:
addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firef
Which I think is a malicious version of the real one (which didn't show up in my search as it's not e…