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How does qwant pays it bills? How do you do business? I didn't see any advertising, and there are no paid subscriptions, is the project funded by the EU?
by MichaelMoser123 9y ago
How does qwant pays it bills? How do you do business? I didn't see any advertising, and there are no paid subscriptions, is the project funded by the EU?
- captainmuon 9y agoThis is an important question, I was wondering the same for very long with DDG. The answer seems to be ads, like everybody else: https://help.qwant.com/help/overview/how-does-qwant-make-money/ https://help.qwant.com/help/overview/how-does-qwant-make-mon...
- vagnes 9y agoThey say: "When you use Qwant, no personal information whatsoever is neither captured or transmitted to advertisers.", but then they also say: "We believe we now have designed a simple and efficient offering by working with the Microsoft Bing ad network." Is it just me, or are these two statements oxymorons?
- captainmuon 9y agoThey probably say "give me some ads for keyword 'react js'" and don't pass on your IP or other identifying info. Still a problem if you search for your own name, but I don't think you can do much about that. Or maybe MS provides a bloom table / index of all keywords they currenty have ads for, so you can check "offline" before sending it to them?
- johansch 9y ago> is the project funded by the EU? Yes. The EIB "loaned" them 25 million Euro: http://www.eib.org/infocentre/press/releases/all/2015/2015-243-eib-provides-eur-25-million-for-start-up-qwant.htm http://www.eib.org/infocentre/press/releases/all/2015/2015-2...