Web indexing: where is Qwant's independence?
Qwant 🇫🇷, the French search engine, is probably the biggest European engine that exists today.
But we often hear that Qwant is actually Microsoft Bing in disguise. How much of this is true?
They have their own crawling tools and algorithms, but they can use Bing's results as a supplement when people search for images or things where Qwant isn't strong enough yet.
They explain it here:
betterweb.qwant.com/en/2023/09…
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Web indexing: where is Qwant's independence? - Better Web
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in reply to All Europeans 🇪🇺 • •@All Europeans 🇪🇺 @GunChleoc The difference is this: Qwant is actually usable thanks to them performing this graudal shift. If anyone wants true independent non-US search engine, they could try the UK-based mojeek.com. However, its search results are still lacking as a result of them building their index entirely from scratch.
Another important thing to know about Qwant is that they teamed up with Ecosio to create own European index for German and French content and expect to go live with all-own search results for German and French later this year. betterweb.qwant.com/en/2024/11…
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