Honestly, just switch your default search engine in your phone-settings and see what happens. After a while you don’t even realize you’re not using Google anymore. And if you’re not pleased with the search result (which I rarely am these days, using ecosia) see if Google gives a better answer. Mostly not.
Happy experimenting! ;)
I think the question is more why isn’t there a like Google in terms of size reach and power in Europe. Less then why ain’t there a search engine arguably one of the smallest aspects of Google
There are plenty of good European searches engines. There are NO googles in Europe.
Which basically just comes down to Europe has some of the most Draconian laws possible when it comes to ownership, copyright and the like. That basically squashed any hope for Europe to ever hope to compete against something like Google back in the day.
Even today the laws in Europe basically make it unviable to complete on the scale of most American or Chinese companies operate at generally.
These are definitely preferable to using straight Google but some of these use Google/Bing to get search results. I’m not sure of the others but Ecosia use Google/Bing for their results and Startpage uses Google. Quant does seem to use their own index but it seems like it was built partially off bing when they first started off. Again, not sure about the others if they have their own index.
There’s actually pretty many to choose from.
Ones I’ve tried:
https://www.ecosia.org/ (🇩🇪) I’ve found this to work best for me
https://www.qwant.com/ (🇫🇷) also good, but I find the ads sometimes too distracting
https://www.startpage.com/ (🇳🇱) also good
others:
Honestly, just switch your default search engine in your phone-settings and see what happens. After a while you don’t even realize you’re not using Google anymore. And if you’re not pleased with the search result (which I rarely am these days, using ecosia) see if Google gives a better answer. Mostly not. Happy experimenting! ;)
I think the question is more why isn’t there a like Google in terms of size reach and power in Europe. Less then why ain’t there a search engine arguably one of the smallest aspects of Google
There are plenty of good European searches engines. There are NO googles in Europe.
Which basically just comes down to Europe has some of the most Draconian laws possible when it comes to ownership, copyright and the like. That basically squashed any hope for Europe to ever hope to compete against something like Google back in the day.
Even today the laws in Europe basically make it unviable to complete on the scale of most American or Chinese companies operate at generally.
These are definitely preferable to using straight Google but some of these use Google/Bing to get search results. I’m not sure of the others but Ecosia use Google/Bing for their results and Startpage uses Google. Quant does seem to use their own index but it seems like it was built partially off bing when they first started off. Again, not sure about the others if they have their own index.
PS: What’s wrong with Brits?
Ecosia and Qwant will cooperate and build their own search index.
They left the union