15 Facts About Qwant

Qwant is a French meta search engine, launched in February 2013 and operated from Paris.

However, Qwant has used Bing since its beginning, and Bing Ads since mid-2016 without any notice on its results pages.

Qwant spread among its three main entry points: the normal homepage, a "light" version, and a "Qwant Junior" portal for children that filters results.

In 2022, Qwant searches are mostly powered by Bing in addition to its own indexing capabilities since 2019.

In July 2016, Mozilla signed a deal with Qwant to allow them to distribute an officially sanctioned version of the Firefox web browser with Qwant as the default search engine.

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Qwant has a web browser based on Firefox on the Apple App Store available for iOS.

In June 2019, Qwant launched Qwant Maps, an open source mapping service that uses the OpenStreetMap database to deliver privacy respecting maps and routing.

Qwant launched a mapping service with data used from OpenStreetMap called Qwant Maps, on June, 2019.

Qwant offers protections based on the new General Data Protection Regulation, which took effect in May 2018.

Qwant seems to take numerous technical precautions to limit third parties from gaining insight into user search queries.

In 2018 Qwant struck a deal with the privacy-centric on-screen keyboard provider Fleksy, in an attempt to create the most private search in any messenger application.

Qwant has rejected the reports and asserts that they do have their own Web crawler and used other search engines in their primary developmental phase only for semantic indexing related purposes.

In June 2019, Qwant announced a partnership with Microsoft to use the Microsoft Azure cloud services to power its own crawlers and algorithms, while preserving the user's privacy.

From 2013 to 2019, Qwant was using Bing APIs for Web and Image searches domains.

Nevertheless, Qwant never respected Bing APIs rules so that users don't know.