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

• infbtag 9y ago
  https://help.qwant.com/help/overview/how-does-qwant-index-the-web/ 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.
  • cJ0th 9y ago
    It seems to depend on your location. > In March 2017, news articles revealed Qwant displays mainly search results from Bing, except in France and Germany, despite several commitment to be exclusively "made in France". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant#Criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant#Criticism
• kbwt 9y ago
  Yeah, for the queries I tested with it returned the exact same results as Yahoo (which in turn gets its results from Bing). The auto-completions are also very limited, no long tail suggestions at all. They also seem to use Elasticsearch from looking at their job postings, but mostly the focus for hiring seems to be on front-end and scripting.