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Qwant

Privacy focused search engine from France

FranceEUEU hostedFree planEU controlled

Qwant is a search engine from France that says it does not store or sell user search data. It uses its own crawling and relies partly on Staan, the European index co-developed with Ecosia, while third-party indexing services including Microsoft Bing still supplement some results. There is also a separate search engine for children.

A French operator makes Qwant a European alternative to the American search engines, and the privacy stance means searches are not tied to a profile. It suits people who want to search without being tracked and families looking for a safer option for kids.

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Data and operations

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Incoming business email

Google Workspace

Non-European provider
Observed
MX 1 smtp.google.com

Why this matters

Published MX records route incoming business email through Google Workspace. Correspondent details and message content can therefore enter this non-European provider's systems; MX does not reveal the configured storage region.

Search result source

Microsoft Bing and other third-party sources

Non-European provider
Observed
Qwant says some results supplement its own crawling through third-party indexing services and APIs including Microsoft Bing

Why this matters

Microsoft Bing and other third-party sources can supply search results for some queries. Search terms and the technical data needed to return results can therefore reach this non-European provider; the cited disclosure explains when that route is used.

Search result source

Staan / European Search Perspective

European provider
Location
Europe
Observed
Qwant's 2025 transparency report says the service relies partly on Staan

Public DNS records identify visible providers and routes, not every backend location or private data-region setting.

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