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I'm surprised there is so little attention given to Staan.ai, the european search indexed built by Ecosia and Qwant. The API is now available, you can make a q
by maelito 3mo ago
I'm surprised there is so little attention given to Staan.ai, the european search indexed built by Ecosia and Qwant.
The API is now available, you can make a query after creating your token.
This could enable SE innovation based on other sources than Google, Bing and Brave.
I wonder if Kagi's using it.
Edit : thanks, corrected the URL
- real_joschi 3mo agoCorrect URL is https://staan.ai/ https://staan.ai/
- palata 3mo agoI was a happy user of Kagi and I switched to Qwant a year ago because they are based in Europe (Ecosia seems to have US servers?). But I have to say: 1. It's slow. As compared to Google or Kagi, getting the results of a search feels sloooow. I could live with that though. 2. The results are just not as good, it feels? And I don't think it's an impression: I left Google like 7 years ago. I have been happy with DuckDuckGo for years, then Kagi for years, and now Qwant... just frustrates me. I can't imagine why. I wonder if I am using Qwant wrongly... maybe it tries to search in a different language because it's a French engine? In any case I end up searching in Google when I don't find what I want in Qwant, which I hadn't done with DuckDuckGo/Kagi in 7 years. Am I the only one experiencing that? Maybe I should give a shot at Ecosia.