Generative AI and new rules targeting tech giants are giving Ecosia and Qwant fuel to challenge Google and Microsoft and develop a web index for Europe.

Ecosia and Qwant are partnering to build a European search index and reduce their dependence on U.S. Big Tech firms.

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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 European search engines, collaborate to create a privacy-focused search index that promotes digital sovereignty and lessens reliance on Big Tech companies.

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