On Sat, 2026-10-24 at 13:49 +0200, Iyán Méndez Veiga wrote: > you want to be "100% Europe" and avoid USA, yet even the > minimalist version depends on libraries from Google [1, 2] and the > default search engine is DuckDuckGo [3], a US company. This is not to > say that I agree with your goal, but to show that you are already > inconsistent.
Do you know of a European search engine that's any good? Basically, you can forget about search engines other than the big, well- known ones. A prime example of why you always end up with the "evil" search engines. I just tried out https://www.mojeek.com/ (an European search engine) first with search queries about Arch Linux, the hits were ok, and then I thought I'd try something a little sensational. Adolf Hitler's former tea house burned down last night/this morning, so I searched for "hitlers teehaus". I only looked at the search results on the first two pages, Hitler's tea house was found, but there was no mention that it had burned down. In contrast, https://www.google.com was on the first page, as expected, with breaking news. https://duckduckgo.com was also on the first page with breaking news. A news item like this, featuring a keyword such as "Hitler", is not an extremely rare niche product, nor is it a little-known academic paper. I also searched for images related to the AUR using https://www.mojeek.com/, but no images matching the topic were found, instead, I was directed to the usual search engines like DDG, Google, etc., which immediately returned a vast number of images related to the AUR we're familiar with.
