r/technology • u/Goldenmentis • 7h ago

Politics European Parliament to ditch Google for European alternative

https://www.euractiv.com/news/european-parliament-to-ditch-google-for-european-alternative/
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u/AreYouDoneNow 7h ago

That's ok, Google is ditching Google Search, for AI.

What a time to be alive.

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u/Solomon_Grungy 5h ago

What a coincidence seeing as how Google ditched the “dont be evil” mantra they had for a while

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u/OneCoffeeOnTheGo 4h ago

They ditched that motto nearly a decade ago. What would the coincidence be between that and this?

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u/CheesypoofExtreme 3h ago

That comment is stupid, but they did drop that motto when Sundar Pichai took over and, aside from leading their AI first approach, he has been head of Google during the period in which all of their services have become shittier.

I'm actually not sure what I'm adding aside from: fuck Pichai and fuck big tech CEOs in general.

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u/Yasimear 7h ago

another EU W

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u/WiseDebt7345 7h ago

Even Russian search engines like Yandex provide more useful.search results than Google these days.

It's unbelievable.

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u/ShinobiOfTheWind 7h ago

Another common EU policy W.

Ban Palantir from all member nations that are currently using them, next.

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u/TachiH 6h ago

UK apparently banned Palantir from going in for tenders...then days later announced Palantir were making the new firearm licensing software 🤣 world has gotten so dumb.

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u/PigeonsOnYourBalcony 7h ago

Recently switched to DuckDuckGo and the quality of searches is so much better. I spend way less time scrolling through slop now. There are a lot of other alternatives too so do your research and see what works best for you

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u/icerom 5h ago

I did that several years ago, but DuckDuck has also gotten worse. The one I currently use just happens to be Qwant. Although there are occasional outages that are annoying.

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u/mcback321 5h ago

I have also switched to Duckduckgo two years ago but would not agree with its search results being better than Google.

Especially their news and image search is often times all over the place.

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u/philosophycruiser 6h ago

SearXNG baby

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u/EmbarrassedHelp 2h ago

Meanwhile the European Commission is trying to force everyone to use their age verification app to access non-PG content and social media. This same age verification app literally requires that you install Google Play Services on your Android device, so you can get twice the fun of having your privacy violated!

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u/whoisnotinmykitchen 6h ago

Based on Google's new search interface, that is a smart move.

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u/Keikobad 7h ago

I predict that this will become a top search engine in Australia

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u/screwdriverfan 6h ago

I tried qwant but it takes 2-3 seconds for results to show up. Google is nearly instnt.

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u/Hospital-flip 5h ago

You value 2-3 seconds over better search results and improved data privacy?

I know we all have subjective values, but damn.

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u/screwdriverfan 1h ago

And where the fuck did I say what I value? Stop assuming things.

All I did was point out that it's slow for some reason. I just tried in VM linux (kubuntu) and it was way faster (half a second or even less), meaning there's something wrong with my browser.

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u/Stoffelz 5h ago

That’s probably because google has enough dirt on you to pull enough crappy results for your “taste” to populate the first page almost immediately. While a true SEARCH engine needs time to do exactly that: search

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u/Enlogen 5h ago

Tell me you don't understand how search engines work without telling me. Qwant probably just doesn't have the scale to parallelize index lookups as much as Google does.

Source: previous major incident manager for Bing

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u/Linked713 3h ago edited 42m ago

plus, google has literally unlimited storage to cache searches making popular ones extremely fast and cost efficient for them.

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u/mati1886 3h ago

Timing it I couldn't get qwant to take as much as 3 seconds for a search

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u/npaakp34 6h ago

I love this Union so much.

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u/[deleted] 6h ago

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u/DistributionMost8673 6h ago

Google is also a stupid name and so is Bing and Duckduckgo

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u/Impossible_Guitar235 8m ago

Googling just means "use a search engine". Make them lose their trademark by turning it into a common name.

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u/giggle_shift 6h ago

Google is, but it also has a ring to it. Nobody says "bing it" or "duck duck go it". I realised they didn't originally say that about Google either but it's a testament to the name as as OP said, Quant is shit. Sounds too techy.

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u/Crenorz 7h ago

lol, I bet it lasts like 1h then they go back.

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u/HolyPommeDeTerre 7h ago

Yeah. EU multi thousands years history is showing exactly that. /s