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Add to SafariWhen comparing Bing vs Qwant, the Slant community recommends Bing for most people. In the question“What is the best alternative to Google search?” Bing is ranked 5th while Qwant is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose Bing is:
First 15 searches of the day earn 1 credit each. Credits can be exchanged for various things such as gift cards, discounts, or memberships.
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Pros
Pro Incentivizes use by offering rewards
First 15 searches of the day earn 1 credit each. Credits can be exchanged for various things such as gift cards, discounts, or memberships.
Pro Advanced image search
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 USA Based
USA based = no privacy. Don't trade ease of use over privacy!
Con No advanced search page
Con Owned by Microsoft
Guaranteed censorship, guaranteed bias, and guaranteed absolutely no privacy.
Con Very very slow
Bing has very slow load times compared to other engines.
Con Can look for animated gifs
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.
