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Web indexing: where is Qwant's independence?

Qwant , the French search engine, is probably the biggest European engine that exists today.

But we often hear that Qwant is actually Microsoft Bing in disguise. How much of this is true?

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.

They explain it here:

https://betterweb.qwant.com/en/2023/09/18/web-indexing-where-is-qwants-independence/