[5kyn3t]

I think it is great news. Europe is so much behind the US in the IT-Sector. Even russia has a successful search-engine.

The default view is a bit overloaded in my opinion...

Lite version: https://lite.qwant.com/

A plus point is that qwant also supports hashbangs like duckduckgo.

[itronitron]

looks promising, qwanting 'java concurrency' gives a nice set of relevant results

[DCRichards]

I hope that one day when Qwant is big, this is cited as the first use of 'qwanting'

[Annatar]

Europe is so much behind the US in the IT-Sector.

Isn’t that a sad truth, only made worse by the irony that a lot of us went to work in the States. A lot of Europe is still conceptually stuck in the pre-UNIX, lone desktop Windows/MS-DOS, early ’90’s era, while the rest of the world runs them by with macOS PC’s and iPads. Lots of European UNIX talent left for the States right at the cusp of the dot-com era and helped build the Internet because that’s where all the action was. We never really recovered from that.

[everyone]

"A lot of Europe is still conceptually stuck in the pre-UNIX, lone desktop Windows/MS-DOS, early ’90’s era" So Europe is stuck in the 90's which somehow predates the 70's ??

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"while the rest of the world runs them by with macOS PC’s and iPads" Buying istuff is somehow progressive?

[jjkk0101]

I am based in Copenhagen and can see some innovation at the application level but there is a lot of catch-up as well, mostly focused at the nordics internal market.

For lower levels of the stack (e.g.: IaaS), there is no way to be competitive against SV without subsidy b/c fwcit there is no access to capital nor enough talents to this problem size.

The prospective is not getting any better at the immigration level, the greencard schema has been repelled and companies are having even harder time to attract talent.