Developed in France, Qwant is a search engine built around two simple principles: respect for privacy and neutrality of results. Concretely, here is what this means.
Respecting Your Privacy
Searching the web often reveals a lot about you: a place you want to go, a recipe, a health question, a personal concern, a financial project… The list is endless. These queries can be used to deduce sensitive information and, depending on practices, be stored, analyzed, or exploited for commercial purposes.
At Qwant, we advocate a different approach: to provide you with useful results without needing to know who you are.
We do not build an advertising profile based on your searches.
We do not track your activity from site to site.
We do not personalize your results based on a search history intended to “guess” your preferences or situation.
In other words: what you search for is part of your private life — and it should remain that way. To learn more about our commitments and protection measures, you can consult our dedicated section.
Ensuring Neutrality and Impartiality of Results
We believe that the same search should offer accessible and reliable information, without being influenced by outside interests. Qwant displays results from across the web, applying its ranking rules with the same rigor.
This notably means that:
We do not promote certain sites because they serve particular commercial, political, or moral interests.
Our results are not “shaped” to reinforce an opinion through personalization based on a profile.
The ranking aims for relevance to your query, the quality of the pages, and may take into account your configured region.
Our goal: to help you access diverse information in a complex world — without locking you into a bubble.
In Brief
Qwant is the idea that a search engine can be efficient while remaining ethical: useful daily, without compromising your privacy, and with results designed to stay as neutral as possible.