Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Qwant, a European search engine that respects your privacy

about.qwant.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

51–60 of 125 posts

Re: Qwant, a European search engine that respects your privacy

#51

Post by dx034 »

beefsack wrote: post #27
lukeqsee wrote: post #15

I'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.

Do you remember DDG five years ago? Everyone needs to start somewhere. One potential advantage is it's run out of Europe instead of the US, which is significant for certain people.

I'd love if DDG would provide a European version. A subdomain that redirects to data only hosted in the EU. Not sure how hard that would be to accomplish but I'm sure it'd be a good argument for many to start using it.

Re: Qwant, a European search engine that respects your privacy

#52

Post by rbag »

doesnt_know wrote: post #12

60 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?

You can try the lite version that should be the default version IMHO: https://lite.qwant.com

Re: Qwant, a European search engine that respects your privacy

#53

Post by kakarot »

The main thing I like about this service is the looks. It's mostly sleek and refreshingly minimal with a colorful and expressive logo to boot, a la Google.

DDG on the other hand... while I love the idea and would love to use it more often, not only gives poor results for most of my searches but the heavy use of red literally gives me a physical anxiety that makes it basically unusable. I could style the page myself but they really need to consider losing the red in favor of green or purple or gold because I can't be the only one who experiences this.

Re: Qwant, a European search engine that respects your privacy

#55

Post by pjmlp »

> https://about.qwant.com/job/ninja/

What a disappointment, I was expecting some job requirements regarding the handling of shuriken, nunchakus, sword fighting, art of camouflage, ...

Ah, and something like the graduation note of Shaolin Temple, in case of attendance.

Re: Qwant, a European search engine that respects your privacy

#56

Post by infbtag »

georgeglue1 wrote: post #41

many privacy search engines like duckduckgo really just query bing or google (sometimes through a proxy)... any idea if qwant does this?

https://help.qwant.com/help/overview/how-does-qwant-index-th...

Although they just show Bing results for me so don't know how much of their own index is actually used.

Re: Qwant, a European search engine that respects your privacy

#59

Post by captainmuon »

MichaelMoser123 wrote: post #57

How does qwant pays it bills? How do you do business? I didn't see any advertising, and there are no paid subscriptions, is the project funded by the EU?

This is an important question, I was wondering the same for very long with DDG. The answer seems to be ads, like everybody else:

https://help.qwant.com/help/overview/how-does-qwant-make-mon...

Re: Qwant, a European search engine that respects your privacy

#60

Post by DyslexicAtheist »

lawl wrote: post #42

European here. First of all, this is okay. But not good. I've tried several "slang" searches that google gets just fine. I've tried these because ddg had/has problems with them for a long time. E.g. If I google for "poe shavs" (a slang term for an item with an abbreviation of the game name), I expect https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Shavronne%27s_Wrappings from what I've tried this seems to work even without a searc…

> First of all, this is okay. But not good.

They are going through aggressive growth phase right now and could need a hand fix many things. As you mentioned (the NLP problem):

https://about.qwant.com/job/ml-engineer-specialized-natural-...

Post reply on HN