The Mozilla Firefox (my main browser) default search engine is Google, and I am pretty sure they get some funding from Google in return. I’m pretty sure Firefox needs the funding to survive. Removing Google as the default may reduce the funding, putting Firefox in jeopardy.
Is this French search engine going to provide replacement funding to Mozilla to keep Firefox alive? Or are the French a bunch of freeloaders?
“ It is part of a larger framework of actions aimed at reducing EP reliance on non-EU digital tools and promoting European-based, privacy-focused services,”
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Gee, EU and “privacy-focused” are oxymoronic.
The EU's great contribution to the internet was forcing everyone to constantly keep accepting or declining cookies. What an absolute annoyance.
So they’re switching to Bing.
Good for the French using their own tech but I suspect “privacy” has nothing to do with it
As far as I know, search no longer exists as we thought of it 20 years ago.
Now you get simple answers that might not have anything to do with the deep research you are attempting, search sees a major word of current usage in your question and that is it, the other words don’t matter, quote marks do nothing, reframing the search, rearranging the words, nothing, the search you are attempting never even enters the picture, so you give up that search knowing that 20 years ago it would have quickly been right at your fingertips.