Comment on Smokey's Simple Guide To Search Engine Alternatives
Imhotep@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Qwant has web crawlers. It started with indexing the German and French web, and the plan was to progressively rely less on Bing
Since the search engine is a failure I suppose they didn’t develop it further.
Smokeydope@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Qwant is a weird one for sure, from what I understand most of its life it relied on bing and only started making efforts to build up its own crawlers and such after 2019. Making it a case of a meta search engine trying to become more of a true search engine. They still use bing even if minimally. I can maybe put in a small footnote about it but I’m not sure if the average person would really care about qwants insider baseball.
Imhotep@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m having a hard time figuring it out also. An article says in 2018 they had 20B pages indexed… but they didn’t use them?
People won’t understand the difference between meta search engine and real one most likely. But if they did, i believe some would choose the “60% independent”, the same way they choose a “60% recycled material”