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Add to SafariWhen comparing Qwant vs Metager, the Slant community recommends Metager for most people. In the question“What is the best alternative to Google search?” Metager is ranked 3rd while Qwant is ranked 8th.
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Pros
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
Pro Open source
Pro Allows to visit search results anonymously
Pro Run by a non profit organisation dedicated to privacy and data protection
Pro Tor network service
Gives access within Tor.
Pro Supports easy search in open-street-map
Locations can be shown on open-street-map.
Pro Really fast
It displays only what you need and no more.
Cons
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.
Con Uses only Bing and Ecosia results
The latter of which could be their own crawler.
