Qwant

Qwant is a privacy-first search engine: no tracking cookies, no behavioural ad profiles, no user-search-history retention. Default for the French public administration, with full French and European-language coverage.

Since May 2026 Qwant has been serving results from EUSP, the independent European search index it co-built with Ecosia, reducing its long-standing dependency on Bing. Buyers compare it to Google on result freshness and AI-summary depth (where Qwant intentionally lags), trading those for a fully cookie-less, EU-hosted experience.

Qwant is a French search engine company headquartered in Paris, founded in 2013 by Jean-Manuel Rozan, Eric Leandri, and Patrick Constant. It is owned by Synfonium SAS, a joint vehicle of Caisse des Dépôts (the French public investment bank) and OVHcloud, giving it majority French institutional and infrastructure backing.

Qwant has long been the default search option for the French public administration. In May 2026 Qwant and Ecosia began serving results from EUSP (European Search Perspective), their jointly-built independent search index a long-running effort to remove the Bing/Google dependency that had defined privacy-friendly EU search engines.