Ecosia and Qwant launch a German web index.

The two search services are building a search infrastructure without Google and Microsoft.

The joint venture European Search Perspective (EUSP), founded by Ecosia and Qwant, has launched its own web index for Germany.

mediafaro.org/article/20260730…

#Ecosia #Qwant #Search #Tech #Germany #France #Google #Microsoft #Europe

Hey fedi nerds! I need a hand from retro software fans. I'm searching for an activate copy of Internet Space Builder of the extinguished Parallel Graphics. On archive there's only a demo of the 2.0 ver. The final one is 3.01

#retro #windows #software #retrosoftware #help #search

Google and Bing power most ‘sovereign’ search engines in Europe and they collect the rent.

Not Mojeek.

The only search engine to build everything from the ground up with zero rent paid to Big Tech.

mojeek.com

#mojeek #search #searchengine #bigtech #alternatives #sovereign #sovereignty

Google’s $4trillion empire. 190,000 workers. $15billion marketing spend. Planetary dominance.

The Galactic Empire vs The Rebel Alliance.

Mojeek’s independent tech. Small team. No marketing budget. The rebels defending sovereignty.

mojeek.com

#mojeek #search #searchengine #bigtech #alternatives #sovereign #sovereignty

Overheard two tourists at the local bakery:

"Now we know that we can't trust AI for the bus schedule".

#AI #search

Dependence on Big Tech means complex privacy policies with complex legal language you can’t read.

Independence is a sovereign choice.

It's why the first search engine in the world with no tracking still has a straightforward privacy policy.

mojeek.com

#mojeek #search #searchengine #bigtech #alternatives #sovereign #sovereignty #privacy

Every search query triggers a complex operating system of servers, databases, algorithms etc.

1 search across 10 billion webpages takes about 0.2 seconds.

It’s a seemingly impossible task but that’s why there’s only one sovereign search engine in Europe.

mojeek.com

#mojeek #search #searchengine #bigtech #alternatives #sovereign #sovereignty

Building search engine infrastructure with zero dependency on big tech isn’t easy.

But sovereignty is worth it.

The decision to build (not rent) ensures we all have independent access to the web.

mojeek.com

#mojeek #search #searchengine #bigtech #alternatives #sovereign #sovereignty

Atención usuarios de ECOSIA ⚠️ Ecosia dice tener mucho amor por los árboles y las energías renovables, pero en la letra chica terminan llamando a los conocidos de siempre. Su principal proveedor de IA es Mistral (que también está bajo sospechas por temas de copyright) y usan de respaldo a OpenAI 🤦

#AI #genAI #chatbot #OpenAI #Mistral #Ecosia #greenwashing #search #ecology #browser

Check out the blog post on PeerSeek - a fast, privacy-respecting place to browse the federated PeerTube network. There are some details on how personalization works and technical background.

Find it here: polykit.rocks/peerseek-federat…

PeerSeek is live at peerseek.video/

#peertube #search #index #visibility #video #peerseek #fediverse #golang #postgres

Privacy isn’t a regulatory hassle, court order, marketing tactic or extra feature to bolt on.

It’s built from the ground up.

The search engine that pioneered zero tracking has your curiosity protected by default.

mojeek.com

#mojeek #search #searchengine #bigtech #alternatives #privacy

Data mining and monetisation of human behaviour on the web created the biggest monopolies in human history.

Your Data. Their empire.

Imagine what they can build with paragraphs of conversational data compared to short and simple search queries.

mojeek.com

#mojeek #search #searchengine #bigtech #alternatives #privacy

20 years ago, Mojeek’s founder made the radical decision to publish the first no tracking privacy policy for a search engine.

It was an ethical choice.

Two decades later, the data economy remains a challenge with your privacy a regulatory, legal and political football.
mojeek.com

#mojeek #search #searchengine #bigtech #alternatives #privacy

as I am finding myself using the #foss #desktop more and more; such #opensource #tools are becoming more handy with each iteration.

So, although I often prefer #cli 9/10 cases, I'll give these #search tools a try too for my graphical interface on my workstation.

Thanks for compiling the list and sharing!

#gnu #linux

Does your search engine’s name begin with B, D or G? It’s ethical score is at best “average” and at worst “poor”. @ethicalconsumer took a look and weren’t impressed.

Have you taken a look?

Check out the search engine starting with M. You’re supporting the top scoring ethical option which quietly leads on privacy protection, the climate, tax conduct etc.

mojeek.com

#mojeek #search #searchengine #bigtech #alternatives #ethics

Google swapped “Don’t be evil” with “Do the right thing”. Evil was a low bar anyway. But mottos are just words if your ethics score is lowest in the industry.

Do the right thing.

Mojeek live and breathe “Do the right thing”. The right choice for people and the planet is rarely the easy one. But the highest ethical score matters to us.

Scores based on Ethical Consumer research published June 2026

mojeek.com

#mojeek #search #searchengine #bigtech #alternatives #ethics

Something like:
www.reddit.com##*:shadow(#search-input [slot=trailingContent])

However, unfortunately, such a filter does not work instantly.

Greenwashing. Privacy posturing. Tax avoidance. Law breaking. Military links. Big budgets mask poor ethics with marketing to make you feel good.

Your ethics. Your choice.

100% green energy powering every search. Strict privacy policies. All taxes paid. No laws broken. Ethical companies have an ethos which runs deep.

mojeek.com

#mojeek #search #searchengine #bigtech #alternatives #ethics

Mojeek was awarded the highest ethical score by @ethicalconsumer when compared to other search engines across a range of categories.

From climate responsibility and privacy protections to online safety and tax conduct, we're the leading ethical search engine with the top score.

This matters to us. Our founding mission to “do the right thing” is our commitment to put people and the planet before profits.

mojeek.com

#mojeek #search #searchengine #bigtech #alternatives #ethics

Mail, Messaging, Browser, Cloud, Socials… the web is full of alternatives to Big Tech which keeps you locked into their ecosystem.

Do One Thing Today

Try an alternative. It might seem a hassle. It’ll be different. But that’s the point. Independent tech is different and diversity brings choice.

mojeek.com

#mojeek #search #searchengine #bigtech #alternatives

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, gave away his rights to the source code as he wanted the web to be a free and universal public good.

“This Is For Everyone”

Google had other plans. $4.3T corporation generating $1B+ per day from harvesting your data and selling you adverts. Mojeek is a vote for Berners-Lee ✅

mojeek.com

#mojeek #search #searchengine #bigtech #alternatives

Google control about 90% of searches. Microsoft around 5%. Bing proxies fight over the rest. Except Mojeek.

100% independent of Big Tech for free and unbiased access to the wealth of human knowledge on the web.

mojeek.com/

#mojeek #search #searchengine #bigtech #alternatives

My PeerTube search index🔎 PeerSeek - got some updates 🚀

- improved user feedback
- better ranking
- optimized crawling

Try it out yourself:

👉 peerseek.video

Please boost and share if you find this tool helpful.

#peertube #search #index #visibility #video #peerseek #fediverse #ranking #index #accessibility #trending #youtube #alternative #creators

PeerSeek 🔎 your personal and privacy friendly PeerTube search index - got some updates 🌱

- home feed structured in rails for better overview
- filter by followed accounts
- better caching
- much more...

Try it out yourself:

👉 peerseek.video

Please boost and share if you find this tool helpful.

#peertube #search #index #visibility #video #peerseek #fediverse #ranking #index #accessibility #trending #youtube #alternative #creators

From the canals of Amsterdam to the streets of Boston, our little guy is on the loose. Tear off a tab and join the pack.

#Kagi #Search #deGoogle

#meme #google #bigbrother #bigdata #browser #history #surfing #web #www #search #surveillance #tracking #robot #captcha #bot #test #problem #humanity #future #internet #security #cybersecurity #fail #economy #technology

New features on PeerSeek, your personal and privacy friendly PeerTube search index 🎉 I added:

- follow accounts to get them more prominent in your feed
- select a default language

Try it out yourself at

👉 https://
peerseek.video

Please boost and share if you find this tool helpful.

#peertube #search #index #visibility #video #peerseek #fediverse #ranking #index #accessibility #trending #youtube #alternative #creators

I added a lot of improvements and fixes to PeerSeek, your personal and privacy friendly PeerTube search index.

Try it out yourself at

👉 peerseek.video

Please boost and share if you find this tool helpful.

#peertube #search #index #visibility #video #peerseek #fediverse #ranking #index #accessibility #trending

He's not alone. @allaboutberlin
It happens to all websites, to podcasts, to books in online shops since years, because they become more and more invisible in search. And even before Google's new plans we have the AI-slop scam websites, copied websites, stolen identities, #AIslop fake books.

We urgently need regulations! I can't imagine that what Google plans would be legal in the EU. Our politicians sleep ...

#enshittification #OpenWeb #search

ChatGPT was never Google’s biggest threat; it was always its own hubris.

With Search now being sacrificed on the altar of AI dominance, the time has come for users to get serious about moving off Google services. It’s not only destroying its products; it’s trying to further degrade the web itself.

disconnect.blog/google-is-its-…

#tech #google #search #ai #generativeai #gemini

Updates on PeerSeek, your personal PeerTube search index I added

- auto-suggest on the search field
- trending videos sort selector

Try it out yourself at

👉 peerseek.video

#peertube #search #index #visibility #video #peerseek #fediverse #ranking #index #accessibility #trending

There are updates on the PeerTube search index

- improved accessibility and navigation
- crawling of video tags
- a lot of changes under the hood

Try it out here

peerseek.video

#peertube #search #index #visibility #video #peerseek #fediverse #ranking #index #accessibility

Sensitive content Reveal/hide

On the PeerTube search engine, I added

- sorting of search results by relevance, date and views
- filter for sensitive content

Try it out yourself at

peerseek.video

#peertube #search #index #visibility #video #peerseek #fediverse #ranking #index

The PeerTube search index is getting more and more features 🚀 You can try it out yourself at

🔎 peerseek.video

I added

* personalized home feed
* search query modifiers like - and " "
* FAQ section

#peertube #search #index #visibility #video #peerseek #fediverse #ranking

Long time @gnome contributor, Carlos Garnacho is the maintainer of localsearch on the GNOME desktop. This talk builds on a talk from last year where Carlos goes over what he's learned over the course of the year. If you're into tings like embeddings, vector databases and similarity search with a fun helping of TinySPARQL then this is the talk for you!

#search #gnome #kde #opensource #linux

Come build the guts of Kagi's search index with us. We're hiring a Senior Index Team Engineer to own crawling, indexing, and ranking 👇

kagi.peopleforce.io/careers/v/…

Fully remote.

#Kagi #Remote #Job #FediHire #Search

Visibility still feels like the weak spot on PeerTube, so I built PeerSeek, my own search index, live at peerseek.video

Results are ranked how I think they should be and there is still a lot of work to be done. Please try it out and give me some feedback, or let me know if it's useful in any way.

#peertube #search #index #visibility #video #peerseek #fediverse

fyyd: kleineGrueneEnte
fyyd.de/podcast/kleinegrueneen…
Aus dem Leben eines Zwillingsvaters. Da ich beim Vorlesen regelmäßig selber eingeschlafen bin, habe ich angefangen eine Geschichte zu erfinden und diese meinen Kindern zu erzählen. Leider bin ich erst Folgen später auf den Trichter gekommen, die auch aufzunehmen, denn meien Kinder wollten auf einmal frühere Folgen noch mal hören.Und ich lasse euch die Gute Nacht Geschichte mithören, die ich für meine Kinder live erfinde. Also, Die Geschichte vom kleinen grünen Frosch und seiner Freundin, der kleinen grünen Ente.

#Papasein#Podcasts#Search Engine #Episodes#Episoden#Audio#Suchmaschine

Modern life is rubbish. Case in point; #WebSearch. I just tried to search;

greens.org.nz spokespeople

I think it's pretty clear what I'm after. I want results from that website *only*, that include the keyword 'spokespeople', right?

#DuckDuckGo gives me thier Wikipedia page, a bunch of spokespeople announcements from 2023, an ActionStation page on alcocol policy that lists Judith Collins as National leader, and the list of spokespeople for the *NZ Labour* party, FFS. Useless.

(1/?)

#search

Is there a way to search Mastodon posts for a specific language only?

I want to see what has been posted in German about Lula's visit to Germany and his meeting with Merz, but most of the posts I find are in Portuguese.

I tried to find this feature on the app Tusky and Phanpy, and the mobile browser search as well.

#Mastodon #Search #Lula #Germany #MastoHelp #FediHelp

This is the world we live in ...

#fake #deepfakes #propaganda #manipulation #search #internet #problem #meme #memes #politics #fascism #racism #future #hate #media #society #altright #fail #omg #wtf #knowledge #wisdom #smart #question

chinatalk.media/p/chinas-techn…

For the past 40 years, instead of pouring obscene amounts of cash in #war selling #ads via #search #socialmedia or in #crypto #LLM #financial engg. - #US could have put it into figuring out and scaling up #decarbonization - but here we are. So glad #China was doing something different. Not all good - but still the difference is stark. As of 2026, both are less #liberal anyway. Sheesh!!!!

"The Internet's Most-Read Tech Publications Have Lost 58% of Their Google Traffic Since 2024."
growtika.com/blog/tech-media-c…

Related: Human visitors to Wikipedia declined by about 8% in 2025.
cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7117795

PS: I'm not surprised that #AI tools are having these effects. They answer questions directly and cut the need to click through to sources, even when they link to sources.

But I haven't yet seen data on the effects at academic journals. Have you?

#Search

We've added a new copy emoji widget! 🌻

#Kagi #Search #Emoji #Widget

The Fediverse Directoy startdir.de/fediverse.html is growing #fediverse #search we will soon reach 1 million entries. #searcEngines

The Start Directory updates is automated blocklists daily. In this article it is documented how we do this, simple and short for transparancy and re-use.

frdl.de/user_support/faq/view/…

Great awareness campaign by @ente on the real cost of "free." You end up paying with your privacy and data: stopinsta.com/

Here's how this becomes relevant for search: help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/wh…

#Kagi #Search #Privacy #Insta #Instagram

Both religion and science exist because we are seeking answers to our many, many questions. We know that there is more to life, to our existence, than a mere slog through each day.

And so we question, and pursue answers to those questions. And each answer, or even a glimpse of one, impels us forward on our journey.

The Witching Hour canvas print -- stevehendersonart.com/featured…

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #nature #idaho #mountains #lake #woman #beauty #truth #search

@FediTips
A question regarding pixelfed: How can I search for multiple hashtags. I want, for instance, find posts that show architecture in Montpellier. I can search for either and will find lots of entries. (I'm using the web interface with pixelfed.de)

#pixelfed #search #hashtag