Qwant Alternatives

Qwant is described as 'European web search engine, launched in July 2013 and operated from Paris. It uses Bing in order to provide people with web search results. It claims not to employ user tracking and doesn't personalize search results in order to avoid trapping users in a filter' and is a very popular web search engine in the online services category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Qwant for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Android, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and iPhone apps. The best Qwant alternative is DuckDuckGo, which is free. Other great apps like Qwant are Startpage, SearXNG, Brave Search and Google Search.

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Qwant alternatives are mainly Web Search Engines, but if you're looking for Image Search Engines or Privacy Tools you can filter on that. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Qwant.
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  1. Stract icon
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    Stract is an open source search engine where the user has the ability to see exactly what is going on and customize almost everything about their search results. It's a search engine made for hackers and tinkerers just like ourselves.

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    great and securer but there's no images

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    • Stract is Free and Open SourceQwant is Free and Proprietary
  2. YaCy icon
     143 likes

    YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. When contributing to the world-wide peer network, the scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users in the world and can index billions of...

    90 YaCy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. Yandex.Search icon
     113 likes

    Yandex is the fastest growing search engine in the world, serving primarily Russian users. It has been experimenting with an English-based search engine, but its main operations are for its Cyrillic engine.

    98 Yandex.Search alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Online
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    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • Telegram
    • iPad
     
  4. Whoogle Search icon
     33 likes

    Get Google search results, but without any ads, javascript, AMP links, cookies, or IP address tracking. Easily deployable in one click as a Docker app, and customizable with a single config file. Quick and simple to implement as a primary search engine replacement on both...

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. 4get icon
     22 likes

    This is a metasearch engine that gets results from other engines, and strips away all of the tracking parameters and Microsoft bullshit they add. Most of the other alternatives to Google jack themselves off about being ""privacy respecting"" or whatever the...

    65 4get alternatives

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    • Online
    • Tor
     
  6. Waterfox Private Search is a meta-search engine whose goal is to eventually serve as the default search option for Waterfox, reducing our dependency on Microsoft and other intermediaries who typically serve as gatekeepers between you and...

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  7. Swisscows icon
     21 likes

    Privacy-first search engine providing web and image searches with no data tracking, no profiling, servers in Switzerland for privacy, encrypted connections, and automatic filtering of offensive or adult content to ensure a family-friendly experience.

    81 Swisscows alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  8. LibreX icon
     10 likes

    LibreX gives you results from Google, Qwant, Ahmia and popular torrent sites without spying on you.

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    • Discontinued

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. Mwmbl Search icon
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    Mwmbl is a non-profit, ad-free, free-libre and free-lunch search engine with a focus on useability and speed. At the moment it is little more than an idea together with a proof of concept implementation of the web front-end and search technology on a small index.

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