Qwant is a French alternative to Bing and DuckDuckGo for web search.
Last updated
- Headquarters
- France
- Founded
- 2013
- Open source
- No
- Free plan
- Yes
- Data hosted in
- the EU
- Revenue
- 10M EUR (2021)
Get fast, reliable answers with a search engine that doesn't store or sell your data. Hosted in Europe for enhanced privacy.
French privacy-first search engine that doesn't track users.
Qwant is a French privacy-first search engine that returns results for web, news, images, and shopping without tracking searches, building user profiles, or filtering results based on history. Unlike Google or Bing, Qwant never stores your search queries, never builds behavioural profiles, and serves only contextual ads, the same ad shown to all searchers of a given term and never targeted to individuals.
Qwant Chat brings AI-powered conversational search into the interface alongside traditional results, and Flash Answer surfaces instant structured answers for common queries. Infrastructure is hosted in France, with Qwant maintaining an independent European index and transparent ranking algorithms that prioritise relevance over engagement signals.
Key benefits:
- No tracking, meaning searches are never stored and no user profile is ever built
- No filter bubble because results are ranked by relevance, not personalised engagement history
- Contextual ads only, based on the query, never on personal data or history
- AI Chat integration for conversational answers alongside web search results
- News, images, and shopping search verticals in addition to web results
- Qwant Junior, a filtered search mode for children's safe browsing
- EU-hosted with all infrastructure in France and no data transferred outside Europe
Qwant is headquartered at 42 Avenue de la Porte de Clichy, Paris, France, operating its infrastructure on French servers fully subject to GDPR. It conducts no cross-site tracking, and has received backing from the French government as part of its digital sovereignty strategy.
Founded in Paris in 2013, Qwant is the leading European alternative to Google Search, built on European infrastructure, with its own index co-developed with Ecosia and still partly supplemented by Bing results.
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