Someone should make a Medium post about how to make your own privacy focused search engine using Bing's API.

lol you're right. The results are identical.

Searching "python merge dict", I would consider the correct answer this StackOverflow post (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38987/how-do-i-merge-two...). Qwant puts it second. Bing places it very near the bottom of the page.

It's a bit more than just hype: it's rebranding Bing results to make them more palatable to a EU audience, while guzzling on public subsidies to pretend it's a EU unicorn and gather support from nationalists.

There are actual results - as a public subsidies scam!

>while guzzling on public subsidies to pretend it's a EU unicorn and gather support from nationalists.

This seems like a weird accusation given that government VC arms like In-Q-Tel or institutions like DARPA invest heavily in Silicon Valley tech firms, not to mention that the national science foundation supported the development of pagerank itself[1]. One of Apple's first investors was the Small Business Investment Company, an investment arm of the federal government. The EU would be stupid to not support the development of an independent technology sector.

[1]https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100660