French search firm Qwant seeks €8M Huawei bailout loan
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Re: French search firm Qwant seeks €8M Huawei bailout loan
#2I remember trying Qwant a few years ago and I wasn't really happy with it, both for search results and UI/UX. Staying with a Google search alternative, I went with DuckDuckGo and didn't look back (especially with access to g! to easily search on Google if ddg fails to dig up what I want)
Re: French search firm Qwant seeks €8M Huawei bailout loan
#3They’re begging to sell 5-7.5% of the compny for €8m?
Sounds like it is time for Qwant to give up.
Re: French search firm Qwant seeks €8M Huawei bailout loan
#4They’re begging to sell 5-7.5% of the compny for €8m? Sounds like it is time for Qwant to give up.
It's all political and diversion of public funds (if that's the correct English term, I edited "money laundering" out).
Qwant should be dead, it is said most of its index is served by Bing anyway (they used to hide it for years and lie about their own indexing stats).
Re: French search firm Qwant seeks €8M Huawei bailout loan
#5> The company lost €13 million in 2020, €23 million in 2019 and €11.2 million in 2018 for revenues that amount respectively for €7.5 million, €5.8 million and €3 million.
Pfft ... this seems to be peanuts for the Silicon Valley VCs out there.
Re: French search firm Qwant seeks €8M Huawei bailout loan
#6> The company lost €13 million in 2020, €23 million in 2019 and €11.2 million in 2018 for revenues that amount respectively for €7.5 million, €5.8 million and €3 million. Pfft ... this seems to be peanuts for the Silicon Valley VCs out there.
They've got a terrible, terrible product. Not sure they would have received anything from a Silicon Valley VC.
Re: French search firm Qwant seeks €8M Huawei bailout loan
#7They’re begging to sell 5-7.5% of the compny for €8m? Sounds like it is time for Qwant to give up.
It's all political and diversion of public funds (if that's the correct English term, I edited "money laundering" out). Qwant should be dead, it is said most of its index is served by Bing anyway (they used to hide it for years and lie about their own indexing stats).
Can you substantiate these (seemingly bizarre) claims of money laundering?
Re: French search firm Qwant seeks €8M Huawei bailout loan
#8I remember trying Qwant a few years ago and I wasn't really happy with it, both for search results and UI/UX. Staying with a Google search alternative, I went with DuckDuckGo and didn't look back (especially with access to g! to easily search on Google if ddg fails to dig up what I want)
Qwant does support !g etc if you end up needing it.
Re: French search firm Qwant seeks €8M Huawei bailout loan
#9They’re begging to sell 5-7.5% of the compny for €8m? Sounds like it is time for Qwant to give up.
It's all political and diversion of public funds (if that's the correct English term, I edited "money laundering" out). Qwant should be dead, it is said most of its index is served by Bing anyway (they used to hide it for years and lie about their own indexing stats).
> Qwant should be dead, it is said most of its index is served by Bing anyway.
Almost all search engines apart from Google use the Bing Index, including DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Excite, Lycos, and Yahoo! Search. [1]
Re: French search firm Qwant seeks €8M Huawei bailout loan
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's all political and diversion of public funds (if that's the correct English term, I edited "money laundering" out). Qwant should be dead, it is said most of its index is served by Bing anyway (they used to hide it for years and lie about their own indexing stats).
> Qwant should be dead, it is said most of its index is served by Bing anyway. Almost all search engines apart from Google use the Bing Index, including DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Excite, Lycos, and Yahoo! Search. [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines
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