In recent times, my search engine of choice has been #DuckDuckGo, followed more recently by #Kagi.
I have been trying out Kagi since December 2025 and it is still in its trial period.
Today, however, I decided to delete my Kagi account and give preference to leading European search engines such as #Ecosia and #Qwant.
I will use #Ecosia as my primary search engine and Qwant as my secondary one.
I have already set these as my preferred search engines in my browser and can easily switch between them. I have also removed all other US-based predefined search engines from my browsers.
The #EUSP (led by Ecosia and Qwant) is developing and building search engine infrastructure in Europe. - https://www.eu-searchperspective.com/
#eu #eusp #sovereignty #kagi #duckduckgo #ecosia #qwant #bigtech #sustainability #privacy
Diogo 🇪🇺
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2026-01-17 00:28:41 UTC
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