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Europe’s answer to Google? Ecosia and Qwant partner to build new search index


“If the United States decided to pull US technology from Europe… then we would have to go back to phone books,” said Ecosia’s CEO.

The infrastructure, called European Search Perspectives (EUSP), is based in Paris and is the creation of the German company Ecosia and French firm Qwant. The aim is to build European digital sovereignty and use the platform to provide a foundation for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. “I think for European society, especially considering the US election results, the current state of the technology in that area is that if the United States decided to pull US technology from Europe [and] not give us access anymore, then we would have to go back to phonebooks,” Christian Kroll, Ecosia’s CEO, told Euronews Next.

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