It’s pretty clearly a national security issue. All American companies are compromised to Israel and anti democratic oligarchs
They are only “weaker” because they are smaller. European cloud services can be just as capable as US ones, it just needs investment to build up the infrastructure.
Too many companies and public institutions in Europe have allowed the US monopolies to get away with their practices here. For example: letting Microsoft bundle so many products into Windows and Office 365 at a loss to build vendor lock in and stifle competition. Letting google push Chrome aggressively to users of other browsers who just want to use their search. Letting Facebook buy Instagram and not regulating the social media monopolies.
These are all choices that reflect the poor state of Europe. We’ve allowed US companies to come in and exploit Europe. That also continues in the EU with companies avoiding tax by basing themselves in Ireland and charging their operations in other countries franchise costs.
Europe tolerated all this because there was an idea that it was balanced out in other ways with the US, and this was what free trade is. Trump has made clear assumptions over all Europes relationship with the US is not equal, and we really need our anti-trust bodies to get back to doing what they used to do to protect European citizens.
Remember when the EU forced Microsoft to give users a choice of web browsers? More recently The EU has done some work on forcing Apple to open it’s appstore / payment system to competition but it’s done next to nothing about Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Windows, Google Search, Google Chrome, or Meta & Twitter/X. I hope European politicians follow their words with actions.
Yeah it makes no sense to me. If you are at a scal where you have multiple locations and disaster recovery its pretty much all that is needed.
I’m also doing my best to actively steer the company I work for as far away from US Tech as possible. Out of principle at first, but it turns out it’s cheaper in the long run.
I believe that they say that, I do not see them act accordingly.
Everything is new at some point. They aren’t weaker for long if you keep pouring enough money into it.
Fragmenting the world order and substantially weakening both the US economy and international relations is actually the entire point of the Trump presidency. If you want the plan outside of project 2025; just play his campaign promises and hear the opposite.
If this were true he would be the single greatest figure of the last 2 centuries.
Not that I think Trump himself actually has anything to do with it; the man shits himself
And by Germany, we mean the world.
Someday Bruder , someday… /s
Meanwhile, the bavarian state government has made another 5 billion € deal with microsoft for the next 5 years.
They were planning, but then they cancelled it.
https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/korrektur-der-staatsregierung-vorerst-kein-deal-mit-microsoft
Well color me surprised
What is a fully US independent search engine?
Others have stated Ecosia/Qwant building a European search index, but you also have Mwmbl with their own index that I believe is not American.
Additionally, you could also look at the various SearXNG instances hosted in Europe (or self-host your own!). They are meta search engines, meaning you can configure what sources and indexes they use for results and the ones you select are used together.
Qwant
Not entirely, as currently, beside results from their own index, they also add search results from Bing.
Qwant and Ecosiaia are currently building a joint independent index
Yes, I know, that’s why I wrote “also”. I’ve edited my comment to make the point more clear.
So say well all
So say we all
