Ecosia and Qwant, two European search engines, join forces on an index to shrink reliance on Big Tech | TechCrunch

Not trying to do FUD and I work for a competitor, but I am a privacy person so I'll provide some links and then it's to you.

Ecosia's privacy policy on the data they collect and process includes your IP address, search terms and session behavioral data

Qwant's privacy policy seems better with most stuff you wouldn't like only coming if you make an account. My only pause would be the Huawei relationship which is effectively FUD because there's not really a reason (I just am not keen on this kind of partnership)

Once again, my opinion is going to be heavily biased here.

Iirc they're ok but not amazing, proprietary and mostly good because they aren't Google or Bing.

to shrink reliance on Big Tech

Right there in the title

AI needs a search Engine as well. it uses it to find the context needed to answer the prompt that was send to the AI system.