Believe it was the CEO personally, but that doesn’t make much of a difference, it was just to abolish Alphabet of any guilt, should the Trump administration ever be toppled.
Anyway, since DuckDuckGo also uses Bing (yay msft) and Startpage uses Google and Kagi might be the most functional search engine, but it’s also an AI-first company and based in the US… Let’s consider Qwant and Ecosia. They are working on building their own shared index. Ecosia is currently more reliant on Bing than Qwant is, I believe, but they’re both trying to be more independent of the American search overlords.
So basically, qwant the owner. Or ecosia the owner. Or if you really must, duckduckgo or startpage the owner. I can’t recommend yandexing the owner because then you’re just supporting another dictatorship.
Believe it was the CEO personally, but that doesn’t make much of a difference, it was just to abolish Alphabet of any guilt, should the Trump administration ever be toppled.
Anyway, since DuckDuckGo also uses Bing (yay msft) and Startpage uses Google and Kagi might be the most functional search engine, but it’s also an AI-first company and based in the US… Let’s consider Qwant and Ecosia. They are working on building their own shared index. Ecosia is currently more reliant on Bing than Qwant is, I believe, but they’re both trying to be more independent of the American search overlords.
So basically, qwant the owner. Or ecosia the owner. Or if you really must, duckduckgo or startpage the owner. I can’t recommend yandexing the owner because then you’re just supporting another dictatorship.