Qwant
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Qwant is a European web search engine, launched in July 2013 and operated from Paris. It uses Bing in order to provide people with web search results. It claims not to employ user tracking and doesn't personalize search results in order to avoid trapping users in a filter...
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application types
Country of Origin
France
EU
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Google Chrome
- Mozilla Firefox
Features
Qwant News & Activities
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Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about QwantEcosia and Qwant team up to launch an independent search index, challenging Google & Bing
The two prominent European search engines Ecosia and Qwant have announced that they are joining for...
- POX published news article about QwantQwant integrates AI into its search engine and announces new upcoming features for 2024
Qwant, the European web search engine renowned for its privacy focus, has announced a new evolution...
Recent activities
- POX added Qwant as alternative to Waterfox Private Search
- POX updated Qwant
What is Qwant?
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- Updated May 19, 2025
- 4.72 avg rating
Comments and Reviews
If you live in the Western world, Google dominates the internet, search included. There's a huge amount wrong with Google, from its compliance with totalitarian censorship, to the fact it profits at the expense of users' privacy, its tax-avoidance, filter bubbling, and much, much else besides. I hate to point out the obvious at this point, but you'll notice that genuinely all of these directly affect important aspects of democracy. Sorry: That's not me, it's just that information, taxes and privacy are inherently at the core of democracy.
Qwant is a comparatively new search engine which promises not to leverage your privacy to profit. It doesn't - as Google does - compile your searches, catalogue your interests, cross-reference your website visits (to say nothing of email contents, youtube views, bookmarks, contacts, phone apps and everything you've done on Chrome). Nor does Qwant leverage all this information to build up a profile of you as an individual, as Google does. Nor does it use that information for its own profit. You might remind yourself of historical examples where an organization has compiled profiles of individuals for its own benefit. And how those organizations related to democracy.
For going against that trend Qwant deserves a modicum of merit, wouldn't you agree?
So what should I say? That its search is better than Google's? No. But it's near-equal. Damn-near equal. So what price your privacy? What price do you put on the freedom to search, to not be bubbled, to not be profiled as a matter of routine?
And if you don't like Qwant, let me break it to you gently: Bing (see here) and Yahoo search (see here) will not help. Privacy conscious alternatives are:
One more thing: If privacy considerations of this sort are new to you, know that many alternatives exist to the convenience you've been sold by Google. It just takes time to research them and learn why it's important. You can do worse than by starting with www.privacytools.io and advice from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (a US non-profit organization advising the public). Don't go thinking that Chrome and Facebook are necessities (or even desirable). You don't have to have every thought and message catalogued by Gmail for their benefit. Ask yourself why things you use are "free". (The answer is because they are using you, in case you're in doubt.)
claims to be independent but is bing, claims to be private but has tracking links on the homepage, not impressed
amazing I'ma be dead ass with y'all this shit surprised even me with its sincerity I fw this hard would recommend
No built-in currency converter and calculator. Just use Brave Search or DDG.
Qwant is getting better and better with the years. Very good alternative located in Europe.
Le moteur de recherche s'est vraiment amélioré ces dernières années. Une entreprise à soutenir fortement!
Qwant doesn't do Boolean searches from what I see.. that's pretty limiting.
It does
It is simple, userfriendly, works very well. Hosted and maintained in France. GRPR complaint. Filter results by selected country. Does everything what a search engine needs to.