That's nice but it needs better support for indexing JavaScript single page apps. Right now only Google seems to be doing it properly.
That sounds like a feature, punishing poorly made "apps" that require javascript.
Qwant, a European search engine that respects your privacy
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Re: Qwant, a European search engine that respects your privacy
#1260 requests, Loaded in 6.49s. Cripes, if you don't have some marketing department shoving tracking scripts all over the place against your will what's your excuse?
Re: Qwant, a European search engine that respects your privacy
#13So where is the bloody product? The silly little link on the about site is easy to miss.
Quite like it on first use. I've been meaning to ditch Google (can't be arsed with "do do no evil" anymore) for a while now and this looks like a good start.
Re: Qwant, a European search engine that respects your privacy
#14I'll try to use it but those news on the search page... I'm there to search, not to read news. There is an addon for Firefox to use it as a search engine: https://addons.mozilla.org/it/firefox/addon/qwantcom-for-fir...
It was possible to close and turn off the news panels and it is possible to see only web results (by clicking on the left panel). This choice is unfortunately not remembered.
The downside of being "cookie free" - instant forgetting of your preferences.
Re: Qwant, a European search engine that respects your privacy
#15I'm not seeing any advantage over duckduckgo.com.
I want a search engine that loads quickly and gives good results, DDG does that while protecting my privacy.
Re: Qwant, a European search engine that respects your privacy
#1660 requests, Loaded in 6.49s. Cripes, if you don't have some marketing department shoving tracking scripts all over the place against your will what's your excuse?
I got a question from our marketing department why it takes a while for our website to load just the other day. My answer was exactly what you mentioned - forcing us to include tracking scripts from google analytics, tag manager, oracle maximizer, segment, facebook, doubleclick and a handful of other monstrosities that do god only knows what on startup.
Re: Qwant, a European search engine that respects your privacy
#17So where is the bloody product? The silly little link on the about site is easy to miss. Quite like it on first use. I've been meaning to ditch Google (can't be arsed with "do do no evil" anymore) for a while now and this looks like a good start.
I'm now close to convinced but the domain is .com - fair enough for world use but this sells itself as an EU based affair. Be who you are (says the MD of a UK company with a .net email address!)
I genuinely hope this works as advertised but I am having a bloody hard time finding out what is behind the scenes from the about website.
I will stick with it because their advertised basic premise strikes a note with me.
Re: Qwant, a European search engine that respects your privacy
#18I can't view the page either with emacs-w3m nor with w3m itself. So that's one thing that DDG has over Qwant for me: it works with my browsers.
Have you tried lite.qwant.com? It's pretty usable for me in w3m, although still not as nice as DDG.
Thanks. lite.qwant.com seems to work.
Now I have to find a way to make it not give me indirect links like:
https://lite.qwant.com/redirect/IDSLFJKsdf99wejweiDFISDJFL92...
But give me direct links instead, like:
On DDG this can be done by appending &kd=-1 to the URL.
Re: Qwant, a European search engine that respects your privacy
#19So where is the bloody product? The silly little link on the about site is easy to miss. Quite like it on first use. I've been meaning to ditch Google (can't be arsed with "do do no evil" anymore) for a while now and this looks like a good start.
I'm now close to convinced but the domain is .com - fair enough for world use but this sells itself as an EU based affair. Be who you are (says the MD of a UK company with a .net email address!) I genuinely hope this works as advertised but I am having a bloody hard time finding out what is behind the scenes from the about website. I will stick with it because their advertised basic premise strikes a note with me.
I simply fired up Firefox and searched (probably via G) for "quanta" and got a pretty severe Google notice.
Now I know what I am going to do. Bye Google - I was a customer for around 20 years.
I'm off.
Re: Qwant, a European search engine that respects your privacy
#2060 requests, Loaded in 6.49s. Cripes, if you don't have some marketing department shoving tracking scripts all over the place against your will what's your excuse?
I got a question from our marketing department why it takes a while for our website to load just the other day. My answer was exactly what you mentioned - forcing us to include tracking scripts from google analytics, tag manager, oracle maximizer, segment, facebook, doubleclick and a handful of other monstrosities that do god only knows what on startup.
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