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Qwant
Qwant (/kwɑ̃t/) is a French search engine, launched in February 2013. Qwant says that it is focused on privacy, does not track users, resell personal data, or bias the display of search results. Its results are similar to the Microsoft Bing search engine however it is used only in case Qwant lacks information of certain website and for image searches. Qwant is currently[when?] only available in around 30 countries.
The name Qwant stems from a combination of the letter Q from the word Quantum and the English word want.
Qwant was created on May 25, 2011 in Nice by investors Jean-Manuel Rozan, Éric Léandri, and Patrick Constant (via his company Pertimm, which developed other search engines for retail and other commercial services).
The metasearch engine was launched in beta in 15 countries and 35 languages on 16 February 2013, and in its final version on 4 July 2013 in its French localization.
In its initial phase, Qwant used Bing’s API for its searches but began reducing its use in a transition to their own indexing (supplemented by other sources). This process would begin in February 2013, but lacked personnel and technology. They advertised using their own engine for indexing social media accounts and the "shopping" part of search results but they still used external APIs.
Since then, and until early 2019, Qwant is considered to be completely based on Bing Web and Images searches, insofar as we can see the first passage of their Qwant bot only from the end of 2014. They provided results based 100% on a Bing API, because then they had neither a crawler nor indexer, as imposed by the API CGUs.
The German publishing group Axel Springer invested capital in June 2014 with 20%, to initiate the development of an indexing robot specialized in the field of news ("News") in French to try to compete with Google News.
On 14 April 2015, Qwant unveiled a new version of its search engine with an updated graphical interface.
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Qwant
Qwant (/kwɑ̃t/) is a French search engine, launched in February 2013. Qwant says that it is focused on privacy, does not track users, resell personal data, or bias the display of search results. Its results are similar to the Microsoft Bing search engine however it is used only in case Qwant lacks information of certain website and for image searches. Qwant is currently[when?] only available in around 30 countries.
The name Qwant stems from a combination of the letter Q from the word Quantum and the English word want.
Qwant was created on May 25, 2011 in Nice by investors Jean-Manuel Rozan, Éric Léandri, and Patrick Constant (via his company Pertimm, which developed other search engines for retail and other commercial services).
The metasearch engine was launched in beta in 15 countries and 35 languages on 16 February 2013, and in its final version on 4 July 2013 in its French localization.
In its initial phase, Qwant used Bing’s API for its searches but began reducing its use in a transition to their own indexing (supplemented by other sources). This process would begin in February 2013, but lacked personnel and technology. They advertised using their own engine for indexing social media accounts and the "shopping" part of search results but they still used external APIs.
Since then, and until early 2019, Qwant is considered to be completely based on Bing Web and Images searches, insofar as we can see the first passage of their Qwant bot only from the end of 2014. They provided results based 100% on a Bing API, because then they had neither a crawler nor indexer, as imposed by the API CGUs.
The German publishing group Axel Springer invested capital in June 2014 with 20%, to initiate the development of an indexing robot specialized in the field of news ("News") in French to try to compete with Google News.
On 14 April 2015, Qwant unveiled a new version of its search engine with an updated graphical interface.