Two Upstart Search Engines Are Teaming Up to Take on Google

But because its results are licensed from Google and Microsofts Bing, Ecosia has little control over whats shown..

The for-profit joint venture, dubbed European Search Perspective and located in Paris, could allow the small companies and any others that decide to join up to reduce their reliance on Google and Bing and serve results that are better tailored to their companies missions and Europeans tastes..

Ecosia has about 1 percent search market share in France and Germany, and claims about 20 million users globally, while Qwant reports about 6 million users...

Were bringing together the most experienced search engineers to build sovereign tech in Europeespecially for the French and German language, and were supremely confident that this will appeal to the investment community, Kroll says.. Developing an indexidentifying all the websites out on the internet and making their contents searchableis no trivial task..

In June, a study by UC Berkeley researchers found that queries in Ethiopian languages such as Amharic on Googles YouTube for popular but benign topics led to results for sexual content..

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