Startpage? (based in Netherlands). I mean it’s a frontend for google, but ecosia is a frontend for bing. And startpage has a no log policy which beats ecosia.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

System1 acquired Startpage and they are based in the US.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Well that's a bummer, but at least the company who owns Startpage will remain in the Netherlands for now it seems.

https://support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/articles/4521498779156-What-it-means-for-Startpage-now-that-System1-is-a-publicly-traded-company

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Startpage gives very good results, I recall reading somewhere that they use search results from Google, but I honestly don't know. I use it over Ecosia because it has slightly better results and is more privacy focused. Plus I never click any adverts, so Ecosia wouldn't generate an awful lot of trees from my usage haha.

I also used Qwant, but the search results weren't great for more complex search queries.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Yeah, websearch is a huge undertaking, there is an European initiative but it's not ready for use ... Can't find it now though, ironically. It wasn't the one by Ecosia and Qwant but a European Union initated research project.