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[โ€“] jodanlime@midwest.social 8 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Anybody try qwant? I'm giving it a quick try because this is the first I'm hearing about it. Seems alright?

[โ€“] Phytobus@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

I've been using it for the past two weeks and its great! In my experience the search results are as good or sometimes better than google. It lacks the AI and tooltips of google so you get less visual bloat and nonesense, but you do have to actually go to one of the results to find your answer, so it takes slightly more time but you also get more/better context.

I tried ecosia and duckduckgo before but ended up going back to google due to the better results. But qwant is much better and i dont see myself going back to google.

[โ€“] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 months ago

I remember hearing about them trying with another european search engine to build up their own search indexer, so I'm hopeful!

I like the UI but atleast for me the search results were not relevant enough to use at work.

[โ€“] Comtief@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

I've been using it for a week, haven't got into a situation yet where I need to go back to Google to find something. Only negative I can say is that the search didn't work a few times, but trying again fixed it.

[โ€“] Libb@jlai.lu 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I would have liked to use it (it's French, like me ;) but since they sell ads and I refuse to see ads (and I'd rather not see my data being collected in order to sell ads)... I don't use them.

[โ€“] aldfin@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Iโ€™ve been using it for a while now, works perfectly for my use cases. Using Le Chat for the occasional AI use cases as well, works great.