What are your opinions on Qwant? - eviltoast
  • GotExx@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    As a French I don’t recommend Qwant

    • Lies of the management team
    • Use Azure services (especially for the search index) rather than OVH services (for a service that claims a certain European sovereignty it’s not great…)
    • Bad search results

    My last try was several years ago, maybe it has changed-

    • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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      3 years ago

      Lies of management team? Can you elaborate? Interested in hearing, as Qwant used to be great for research until they blocked it on their end for India.

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    3 years ago

    Nobody is talking about how for some mysterious reason, they chose to make it unavailable for a lot of countries this month? India, Singapore, Brazil, Nepal, Indonesia, Kenya and so on…

    I need to use a VPN everytime to use Qwant, and so my usage of it has dropped drastically, even though DuckDuckGo is available via good DNS (even that is blocked on some ISPs).