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Empowering Choice: Firefox Partners with Qwant for a Better Web (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (5 children)

First time I've heard of this web search engine. Anyone used it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I used it for a while - worked well and I believe it's made in the EU.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Better than DDG or Bing, but worse than Google

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

used it a few times, it's okay 👍

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I use it every day. The results are much better than Duckduckgo, but maybe that's because I'm French and it's a French service.

I don't know how good it is for non-French customers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

I have tried it in English and Spanish, the first results are usually the same as DuckDuckGo, but the rest are worse.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Been using it since I read DDG was discovered having trackers from Microsoft, which they've since removed - or so they claim.

I can say that 2 times out of 10 I defer to DDG, or even Google. But it's good enough and they are based in the EU, so they are forced by law to follow certain privacy measures.

If Mozilla teams up with them, I'm only expecting Qwant to get better - and it's supporting competition, so that's nice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Been using it since I read DDG was discovered having trackers from Microsoft, which they’ve since removed - or so they claim.

Considering the only news results I get on DDG are from MSN, I believe it, but also I'm guessing the net result is the same...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Qwant primarily uses Bing. Every single concern is the same.