This means Google isn't paying the millions to be the default anymore??
Seems to be an awful news then, that money was useful for development and a default is trivial to change
this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2024
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I didn't see a line that suggests they're putting Qwant as default, only that they're making it available as a search provider, just as DuckDuckGo and others are.
They say:
Did you know you could choose the search engine of your choice right from your Firefox URL bar?
Too bad about the choice for qwant. I've been using them for many years and they have big flaws: they block visits from unsupported countries, so if you're traveling, you're fucked. They also started blocking ad blocking users and their main webpage is full of crap that you have to disable manually. Their support is non existing. And they use the same censorship as Microsoft. I moved to brave search recently
Searxng and you live happily
Looks interesting but I tried it and like most alternative engines, it's bad and showing regional results for me. It's good for English based searches but not in my lingo
Have you tried Kagi?
No, first time I hear about it
It's a paid search engine, so their only priority is serving you good search results. It feels like using google before the 2012-ish enshittification.
There's no way Mozilla is replacing Google as the default, so what are they actually announcing here? I didn't read any actual results thats happening. Are they just adding Qwant as an option in the search engine settings?
this is sick, love qwant and hope this gives them more resources
Isn't Qwant glorified Bing?
Isn't Duckduckgo?
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