Qwant and Ecosia debut Staan, a European search index that aims to take on Big Tech

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European search engines Qwant and Ecosia said on Wednesday that they have both started serving search queries through an index they developed together, Staan, which aims to be a cheaper, more privacy-focused alternative to Google and Bing.

Last year, French privacy-focused search engine Qwant struck a joint venture with German non-profit search engine Ecosia to develop a European search index. Called European Search Perspective (EUSP), the JV now aims to serve around 50% of French queries and 33% of German queries by the end of the year.

According to Christian Kroll, CEO of Ecosia:-

…through this index, combined with European privacy laws, EUSP can offer a more privacy-friendly search solution as compared to its U.S. counterparts.

More info HERE

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I have been using qwant with a french IP, this way i get only results from their index and not bing. for a small while and in my casual web browsing its pretty good. Only annoyance is that, as its focused on french users, it tends to surface french versions of sites. It feels trivial to me for them to provide other locals

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How come they didn’t involve Mojeek (UK) or MetaGer (DE)?

Also funny how EU tech says they’re trying to reclaim control from USA, yet Ecosia relies on Cloudflare.

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Looks heavily AI oriented

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