[maelito]

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]

Correct URL is https://staan.ai/

[palata]

I 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.