It isn't clear to what extent Qwant actually makes their own results. In 2013 they said they were temporarily using Bing results they purchased as "training da

It isn't clear to what extent Qwant actually makes their own results. In 2013 they said they were temporarily using Bing results they purchased as "training data" [wikipedia]. They haven't given any updates on that I could find (in English, at least), but they recently proudly announced they have 20B pages in their index in an article on their partnerships with Microsoft [betterweb]. Google's index is 1500 times larger, so I'm not sure how competitive their own index is [goog]. And, if they no longer needed to rely on Bing results, wouldn't they announce that? [wiki]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant [betterweb]: https://betterweb.qwant.com/how-microsoft-tools-strengthen-qwant/ https://betterweb.qwant.com/how-microsoft-tools-strengthen-q... [goog]: https://venturebeat.com/2013/03/01/how-google-searches-30-trillion-web-pages-100-billion-times-a-month/ https://venturebeat.com/2013/03/01/how-google-searches-30-tr...