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Historically, they have both been relying mostly on the Bing index, with Qwant building its own index for a while and serving a mix.

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[โ€“] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 54 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I've been carefully optimistic about this - even if ecosia and qwant decide to start heavily serve ads it still means we have an alternative which will supplement privacy focused frontends and metasearch engines.

[โ€“] jlow@beehaw.org 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Just be aware that fasch media company Axel Springer owns 20% of Qwant ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant)

[โ€“] kungfuratte 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also at least one of the original founders is a dubious character. He's left Qwant in 2020 though.

https://netzpolitik.org/2022/digitale-raeuberpistole-der-absturz-der-suchmaschine-qwant-und-ihres-gruenders/ (sorry, only found a German source quickly, you may have to use a translator to read it).

[โ€“] notastatist 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"Gleichzeitig soll das Unternehmen geplant haben, Staatstrojaner und Drohnen autoritรคren afrikanischen Regierungen in Zusammenarbeit mit Waffenhรคndlern aus Polen und dem Nahen Osten anzubieten." From the Text.

"At the same time, the company is said to have planned to offer state Trojans and drones to authoritarian African governments in cooperation with arms dealers from Poland and the Middle East"

This part is from Qwands owner his second business, whis is more like spyware. This is hard.

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