According to a new report, the European Parliament could ditch Google as its default search engine. This is all a part of the initiative to become less reliant on American tech.
The European Parliament decided to ditch Google Search in favor of Qwant
The European Parliament will allegedly stop using Google as the default search engine on its in-house computers. The information comes from Politico, by the way. Searches made via the address bar on Firefox and Edge will be made via the French alternative Qwant.
Qwant will be the new default search engine starting on June 4, so, tomorrow. Workers will still be able to go to another search engine’s website or change the default search engine, which kind of defeats the purpose of this move, but there you go.
It is said that officials are making the change “in line with the Parliament’s commitment to digital sovereignty and the protection of users’ personal data.” This quote is pulled from an email that was sent to the staff. Qwant is mentioned as a “privacy-focused European search engine.”
It’s all a part of the initiative to reduce reliance on foreign tech
The European Commission is expected to reveal a sovereignty package which is designed with the goal of reducing the EU’s reliance on foreign technology. That is supposed to happen at some point today.
France has been on the forefront of all this. It is planning to switch government workstations from Windows to Linux, and ditch both Zoom and Microsoft Teams in the process. It will use Vision, a local alternative, for video calls.
It is worth noting that thanks to Google’s hardcore AI push, DuckDuckGo installations soared. DuckDuckGo provides users the option to ditch generative AI search results altogether. Yesterday, DuckDuckGo said that it broke its all-time single-day search traffic record on June 1.
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