For completeness, I checked: Start Page private search, Netherlands location, uses "search providers" so not doing their own web crawling.
DuckDuckGo US based. Use their own web crawler. I have been using them for a year or two. Mar. 4, 2025 21:15:51 Ron via linux <[email protected]>: > Eric Marceau via linux wrote on 2025-03-04 17:39: > >> While the "Bing" reference may have been true for the past, they have been >> working to move away from that and are on the verge of severing that tie >> imminently, according to their web site news: >> (From: https://betterweb.qwant.com/en/2024/11/08/ecosia-and-qwant- >> join-forces-to-develop-european-search-index/) > > Fantastic! > > > I hadn't checked up on them since at least a year ago and was disappointed > that my initial thinking was wrong. > > > So pleased to see progress - thanks for pointing this out! > > > To unsubscribe send a blank message to [email protected] > To get help send a blank message to [email protected] > To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org
