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Your Top 5 most impactful product/service switch (feddit.org)
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What would be your top 5 most important and impactful product/service to switch from US to European?

And bonus question: What is one product/service you think is not as imlactful as another product/service or as others think?

My top 5(and choice):

  • Search engine (Qwant)

  • AI chatbot (mistralAI)

  • Map app (mapyCZ)

  • Mobility: selling US cars (this one should have easy EU choices)

  • Food (may be very hard for some, but I think everyone should invest a lot of time into this topic)

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Tech services neeeed(!) to be switched, since data is crucial in modern age. Oh also ofc don't use chrome based browsers.

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Search: French Qwant.com is shockingly good, results, even in images is identical to Google/Bing. it has no AI integration which is fine, just use mistral. Only image search need a little refinement like a search for more identical of selected imagery. .

AI: chat.Mistral.ai is French and does the job to answer ie more specific but not too scientific questions.

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Map: pleased with mapy.cz, ofc no street view but everything else, adding images of places is our job

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Car: preferably even trying public transport+cycling or just cycling for groceries is a lot already or go for EU car if still needed for whatever degree

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Food: this is a big topic, so I'll be general. I'd say don't be perfect. Go for the essentials you buy most. If you replace these, already rate that as a win. Because every brand is just a pseudo of a likely American corporation behind

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