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, two search engines challenging Google, have announced a partnership to develop a European search index, CNBC reported. This collaboration is aimed at lessening their dependence on US big tech companies.

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.

The Berlin search engine start-up Ecosia and the French provider Qwant want to make themselves independent of search results from the Internet giants

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