Qwant, France's privacy-focused search engine, and Ecosia, a Berlin-based not-for-profit search engine that uses ad revenue to fund tree planting and

Ecosia and Qwant are partnering to build a European search index and reduce their dependence on U.S. Big Tech firms.

European search engines Ecosia and Qwant have partnered to create an independent search index, aiming to challenge the dominance of US tech giants Google and Microsoft. The joint venture, called European Search Perspective (EUSP),

Ecosia and Qwant, two European search engines, collaborate to create a privacy-focused search index that promotes digital sovereignty and lessens reliance on Big Tech companies.

If the United States decided to pull US technology from Europe… then we would have to go back to phone books,” said Ecosia’s CEO. View on euronews