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They keep telling everybody how the web was invented in Europe - it wasn't

Except it was:
Berners-Lee worked as an independent contractor at CERN from June to December 1980. While in Geneva, he proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext, to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers. To demonstrate it, he built a prototype system named ENQUIRE.

and again The first website was built at CERN. Despite this being an international organisation hosted by Switzerland, the office that Berners-Lee used was just across the border in France.

so how come that in almost 30 years there is no euro search engine, hunh?

Except there is. It's called Qwant.

Not so smart after all.

Is that self-reflection I hear?

https://www.qwant.com/ is the only one

Another (European) privacy friendly search engine is Qwant.

Don't get me wrong. I think Google should fry if they're blocking competing search engines from their browser. But:

Google also owns duck.com and points it directly at Google search, which consistently confuses DuckDuckGo users.

They wouldn't be so easily confused if the DuckDuckGo landing page didn't look nearly identical to Google's landing page. Contrast to Bing, Yahoo, Ask, Startpage, Qwant, Yandex (#1 in Russia), Naver (#1 in South Korea). The only other major search engine which makes the same mistake of copying Google too closely is Baidu (#1 in China).

Because there's just so many ways to visually format a search website.

Google also owns duck.com and points it directly at Google search, which consistently confuses DuckDuckGo users.

They wouldn't be so easily confused if the DuckDuckGo landing page didn't look nearly identical to Google's landing page. Contrast to Bing, Yahoo, Ask, Startpage, Qwant, Yandex (#1 in Russia), Naver (#1 in South Korea). The only other major search engine which makes the same mistake of copying Google too closely is Baidu (#1 in China).

Duck Duck Go and its lite version.
Findx.
Quant
I would include Startpage but they get results off Google. Qwant and DDG get results off Bing so they should probably be placed in the same boat. Findx actually has its own crawlers I think but their results are still iffy. However you can help them by adding your ranking to the results.

https://www.qwant.com/

Results are quite good and seem to be a bit better than duckduckgo sometimes. Uses more fancy javascript, but has more fancy features as well and the same promise of no data collection.

There are enough companies that know how to do search that apple could ally with We don't even have to mention Microsoft and Google who would determinedly sell the user's data if Apple let them. They could go to smaller players like Qwant who would give them great terms for such large business and who already know about privacy.

Instead, as ever Apple goes with NIH.

I switched to https://qwant.com/ a few months ago. Works fine for ~95% of all searches I do. The other 5% I manually route via Google's more advanced filtering.

I hadn't heard of qwant before. I must give it a spin. How does it compares with DuckDuckGo?

I switched to https://qwant.com/ a few months ago. Works fine for ~95% of all searches I do. The other 5% I manually route via Google's more advanced filtering.

I think Qwant ( https://www.qwant.com/ ) does it already for ages.