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TechAltar

Wow, quite a bombshell! Ecosia & Qwant join forces to build own search index. Their reasons:
- Bing massively raising API costs
- geopolitical risk with US increased
- EU DMA rules make competition easier
- GenAI massively changes search, is both a threat & opportunity

Rollout starts in France next quarter already 🤯

techcrunch.com/2024/11/11/ecos

Wow, quite a bombshell! Ecosia & Qwant join forces to build own search index. Their reasons:
- Bing massively raising API costs
- geopolitical risk with US increased
- EU DMA rules make competition easier
- GenAI massively changes search, is both a threat & opportunity

Rollout starts in France next quarter already 🤯

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Brian Stafford

@Techaltar - Can't we just have a search without AI?

Lando

@Techaltar Initially loved the idea: real competition in the search sphere would be great, and it’s cool that the two companies are partnering to make that happen. Also like the supposed privacy centric approach to results.

But the significant focus on GenAI kills a lot of the vibe for me. I don’t believe GenAI will have a meaningful part to play in effective search engines, and even if they did I don’t think it’s worth the resource consumption. Fees like Google tech bros all over again

tizmic

@Techaltar I think a fundamentalist has some things to complain about @protonprivacy .
I, for one, am very satisfied about the services and development, though the only thing I found confusing is the strong claim to open source and the delays in some cases.

For example, the Proton Drive applications (apart from web) were not published until very recently, even though the service is on the market; on the other hand, the Proton Wallet application's source code is already published as a Flutter

Lee 🌏

@Techaltar
I should probably use more of their services.

Vít Skalický :fedora:

@Techaltar I really wanted to move to using proton drive, but it does not support file upload/edit via link if the other person does not have an account, which is a deal breaker for me. Currently using nextcloud which does not force anyone into creating an account, if possible.

TechAltar

youtube.com/watch?v=3FQSFnZpsq

Absolutely insane story of a Ukranian girl getting her face cloned & deepfaked into dozens of pro-Russian digital influencers on Chinese social media.

I fear this flood of AI shit is truly going to break the internet

TechAltar

My video about the Fediverse is finally live on Nebula & coming soon to YouTube!

A new internet is forming (&Meta wants to control it)

nebula.tv/videos/techaltar-a-n

Video thumbnail showing Zuck and internet icons
TechAltar

I've also posted 4 of the most interesting interviews I've done as bonus videos that are exclusive to Nebula subscribers.

Eugen Rochko @Gargron (CEO of Mastodon) nebula.tv/videos/techaltar-the

Matt Mullenweg ( CEO of Automattic, Tumblr, WordPress, etc.) @photomatt nebula.tv/videos/techaltar-tum

Matej Svancer (CEO of OpenVibe) @matej_svancer nebula.tv/videos/techaltar-bui

@cd24 and @seb the people who run the SFBA.social instance nebula.tv/videos/techaltar-run

Thanks to everyone for participating!

I've also posted 4 of the most interesting interviews I've done as bonus videos that are exclusive to Nebula subscribers.

Eugen Rochko @Gargron (CEO of Mastodon) nebula.tv/videos/techaltar-the

Matt Mullenweg ( CEO of Automattic, Tumblr, WordPress, etc.) @photomatt nebula.tv/videos/techaltar-tum

TechAltar

Thanks for coming to Berlin on such a short notice for an interview! @Gargron

The interview & my video are coming in a few weeks :)

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