Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privacy

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Post by Mizza » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 7:49 PM UTC

Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privacy
qwant.com

Re: Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privacy

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Post by Mizza » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 7:50 PM UTC

This was posted in another thread, but I'd never seen it before. French-made.

Results seem just as good as Google, PutLocker searchers work, and it's as privacy-respecting as DDG. I've been using it all day and I'm happy with the results, so I thought I'd share.

Re: Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privacy

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Post by helph67 » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 8:27 PM UTC

Mizza wrote: post #2

This was posted in another thread, but I'd never seen it before. French-made. Results seem just as good as Google, PutLocker searchers work, and it's as privacy-respecting as DDG. I've been using it all day and I'm happy with the results, so I thought I'd share.

I have been using it for many months and prefer it to DDG. Haven't used Goo in years!

Re: Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privacy

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Post by LunaSea » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 8:39 PM UTC

Mizza wrote: post #2

This was posted in another thread, but I'd never seen it before. French-made. Results seem just as good as Google, PutLocker searchers work, and it's as privacy-respecting as DDG. I've been using it all day and I'm happy with the results, so I thought I'd share.

It's just a front for Bing.

The company is pure hype, no results.

Re: Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privacy

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Post by leahshule56 » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 8:40 PM UTC

I'm getting zero results under web for common search terms on brave mobile. Making this engine entirely useless to me...

Re: Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privacy

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Post by shirakawasuna » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 8:40 PM UTC

I'm not sure there is a way to create a search engine that can verifiably respect your privacy unless you were to self-host the entire thing.

This one's hosted in France. France is part of Nine Eyes, among other things.

Re: Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privacy

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Post by jstr » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 8:44 PM UTC

LunaSea wrote: post #4

Mizza wrote: post #2

This was posted in another thread, but I'd never seen it before. French-made. Results seem just as good as Google, PutLocker searchers work, and it's as privacy-respecting as DDG. I've been using it all day and I'm happy with the results, so I thought I'd share.

It's just a front for Bing. The company is pure hype, no results.

lol you're right. The results are identical.

Re: Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privacy

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Post by bb101 » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 8:45 PM UTC

I've been generally happy with startpage.com, they seem to mirror Google's results. And it works with dark mode. You don't get the contextual niceties that you get with Google though e.g. results for "70F in C".

Re: Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privacy

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Post by rasengan » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 8:45 PM UTC

shirakawasuna wrote: post #6

I'm not sure there is a way to create a search engine that can verifiably respect your privacy unless you were to self-host the entire thing. This one's hosted in France. France is part of Nine Eyes, among other things.

Private.sh encrypts queries on the client side and routes requests thru proxies to maximize privacy.

Re: Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privacy

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Post by blindm » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 8:48 PM UTC

I've been trying to get search results for months now, and Qwant just fails everytime with a white screen of death. See screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/jUv6vm0

I've even tried with different IPs / VPN connections and it still refuses to show results.

Surely I'm not the only user who experiences this?