All Europeans 🇪🇺<p>Web indexing: where is Qwant's independence?</p><p>Qwant 🇫🇷, the French search engine, is probably the biggest European engine that exists today.</p><p>But we often hear that Qwant is actually Microsoft Bing in disguise. How much of this is true?</p><p>They have their own crawling tools and algorithms, but they can use Bing's results as a supplement when people search for images or things where Qwant isn't strong enough yet.</p><p>They explain it here:</p><p><a href="https://betterweb.qwant.com/en/2023/09/18/web-indexing-where-is-qwants-independence/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">betterweb.qwant.com/en/2023/09</span><span class="invisible">/18/web-indexing-where-is-qwants-independence/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/qwant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qwant</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/SearchEngine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SearchEngine</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/europeanalternative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>europeanalternative</span></a></p>