When comparing Qwant vs Siik, the Slant community recommends Qwant for most people. In the question“What is the best alternative to Google search?” Qwant is ranked 8th while Siik is ranked 16th.
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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 It has news
It has a very cool news section.
Pro It has its own index
It's not a metasearch engine.
Pro Entities search
It shows up entities and descriptions from Wikipedia.
Pro Eye-catching
Cons
Con They mainly use Bing results
It's a metasearch engine.
Con Results non accurate as Google
They are not accurate as Google.
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 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 Search results are very limited in scope
