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Google decides it won't comply with EU fact-checking law (www.engadget.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

France has a tech sector?

Aesthetically I like reading technical texts in French.

(Contrary to the stereotype, romantic texts not so much, that's where English is better ; and despite trying my best, I still haven't found a way to like Dutch ; neutral on German.)

But the point is - has anything big lifted off in France in the last 20 years or so?

I'm not talking about quite a few particular people whose names should be in history books. I'm talking about companies and systems.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

France has its own independent search engine, Qwant.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

In its early days, Qwant heavily relied on Bing's API to provide search results. [...]

Qwant began transitioning to its own indexing system in February 2013, but this process was gradual. The company started using its own engine for indexing social media accounts and the "shopping" part of search results, [...]

Today, Qwant's search results are a mix of its own indexed content and results pulled from Bing.

https://thedroidguy.com/does-qwant-search-use-bing-search-results-ultimate-guide-1265864

I was curious if it relied on Bing, as most 3rd party search engines do. Which seems to be the case.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There is a french tech sector: Doctolib, BlaBlaCar, and a few other original ideas have opened new types of services and taken their hold over Europe. Yet, those services cannot be adapted to individualistic north America.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

OK, TIL. As someone in Russia, I wouldn't know.

I don't think "individualistic" is a bad thing or prevents those from working there. Maybe you meant "atomized society", but US is not the worst country in that regard, that would be the one I live in.

A modern and more global take on Minitel would be cool.