Web Search Engine News
🌍 Ecosia & Qwant Launch Staan: European Search Independence Takes Major Step with Privacy-First Index
🚀 Ecosia and Qwant have launched Staan, a European search index advancing EU digital sovereignty by providing privacy-focused search infrastructure. Ecosia now serves French users with European search results, targeting 30% coverage by year-end. The initiative builds on the November 2024 EUSP framework and already powers multiple European search engines while ensuring strict privacy compliance. 🌍🔐
🌐 Cloudflare Exposes Perplexity's "Stealth Scraping": AI Startup Accused of Massive Bot Evasion Campaign 🤖
🚨 Cloudflare accuses Perplexity of using sophisticated stealth tactics to bypass website AI crawler blocks, including rotating user-agents and network switching across millions of daily requests. Perplexity denies the allegations as a publicity stunt. The dispute follows 2023 paywall and robots.txt violation claims, highlighting escalating tensions between AI companies seeking data and publishers protecting content. 🌐🤖