When comparing dogpile vs Qwant, the Slant community recommends Qwant for most people. In the question“What is the best alternative to Google search?” Qwant is ranked 8th while dogpile is ranked 15th.
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Pros
Pro Shows content from all major search engines
When you search using dogpile, it brings up content from many search engines to make sure you get what you're looking for. Some of the search engines it uses are Google, Ask, MSN, and Yahoo, and it aggregates content from all of them to display for you.
Pro No user tracking
Pro Has a lite version
Available here.
Pro Hosted in the EU
It uses a strict data regulation law.
Pro Good search results
Pro Ecosystem Qwant Maps, Music, Boards
They are building an ecosystem .
Pro Instant answers
They have like "shortcodes" named instant answers that let you have an answer from the Qwant interface (for example the hash of a word).
Pro Qwick commands (jump to any other search/website)
Use "&g" to jump to google;
&a for amazon;
&tw for twitter;
&ec for ecosia;
… More here.
Pro Private infrastructure and hosting
They own their servers .
Pro Ad free/Merchant independent
So far, Qwant does not sort searches based on Merchant.
Pro No filter bubble
Cons
Con Half of the page is ads
When searching, nearly half of the results page is ads. There are 3 ads up at the top, an ad in the middle of the actual results, and 3 more ads at the bottom.
Con Extremely slow with results
Con They mainly use Bing results
It's a metasearch engine.
Con Based in France
While France is in Europe, the France government can ask for the information from search engine at any time so it's risky too.
Con Results non accurate as Google
They are not accurate as Google.
Con Not very good Android and iOS app
Con Filter by time restricted to max one month
Some other search engines offer a whole past year.