I love the irony of it using google analytics.
The fact that it had to be ungoogled is laughable.
The thought process: “hmm buy-european-made needs analytics, what to pick, what to pick… google analytics! yes best choice gold star”
The creator originally used a website maker which had it as standard. I saw in another community that they’ve got some folks helping them to rebuild it without using the sitebuilder so they can get rid of Google analytics. So hopefully it’ll be rid of Google soon!
Think this was posted 18hours ago to this community
Oops, I though it was the European alternatives one
Probably, a collaboration between these two would be useful.
Anybody try qwant? I’m giving it a quick try because this is the first I’m hearing about it. Seems alright?
I’ve been using it for the past two weeks and its great! In my experience the search results are as good or sometimes better than google. It lacks the AI and tooltips of google so you get less visual bloat and nonesense, but you do have to actually go to one of the results to find your answer, so it takes slightly more time but you also get more/better context.
I tried ecosia and duckduckgo before but ended up going back to google due to the better results. But qwant is much better and i dont see myself going back to google.
Meh 🤷
They were historically completely dependent on Bing (like most other search engines) and while they continued putting some efforts in building their own index, they’re nowhere close to it.
They also recently made a few moves to push advertising and to compromise with privacy (eg. the option to create tracked account to access some AI services).
On the other hands they will probably be more respectful than Google, and the quality of Google’s results seems to be degrading faster than Qwant is improving 🤷
I’d guess Ecosia is in a similar situation. I’ve personally been using Kagi for a while but recent events make me consider moving to a European alternative too.
iirc Ecosia and Qwant were working on a search engine to substitute Google, or at least give it competition
Kagi also used Yandex the russian searching index btw.
I think this sounds promising https://betterweb.qwant.com/en/2024/11/08/ecosia-and-qwant-join-forces-to-develop-european-search-index/
Yeah but I think Kagi is a meta search engine, so at least the technical dependency on Yandex is limited 🤞
I also have high hope for the Ecosia x Qwant project but I don’t think there is any specific funding yet, so it’s just about sharing Qwant’s advancement on building its index 🫤 Let’s stop wasting all our money on AI and let’s build our own datacenters and raise enough funding for a few dozens more search engineers!
Any alternatives to Etsy and Kickstarter?
This is such a good question I feel like it could be its own post!
As far as I know about Etsy: sadly not :(
Etsy had direct competitors from Germany and France for example, but Etsy ended up buying them…
I read about that here in competitor section: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etsy
Hum… Good idea, but poor UX.
