> Generative AI and new rules targeting tech giants are giving Ecosia and Qwant fuel to challenge Google and Microsoft and develop a web index for Europe.
“New rules” means regulation. “Market forces” kept the incumbents at the top, it is regulation that is giving others a chance.
> But Kroll believes tech advances have made affordable indexing more possible, and new EU regulations limiting the power of gatekeepers such as Google are making it a worthwhile pursuit.
Which is also what you’d get inundated by when doing the search I mentioned above. None of this is hard to find. If you want to discuss the article, it’s expected you make a minimum of effort to check what it says.