Can Europe build itself a rival to Google?

Ecosia and Qwant are teaming up to create a European search index, aiming to break the dominance of Google and reduce Europe’s reliance on US tech giants. Can they succeed in challenging the status quo?

When it comes to searching the internet, there’s little that Europeans can do without America.

When Europeans go looking for information, 90% of them rely on US tech giant Google to find what they’re after. Around 5% use Microsoft’s Bing.