{"id":715,"date":"2023-09-18T16:58:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T14:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betterweb.qwant.com\/2023\/09\/18\/web-indexing-where-is-qwants-independence\/"},"modified":"2023-10-02T11:29:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T09:29:35","slug":"web-indexing-where-is-qwants-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betterweb.qwant.com\/en\/2023\/09\/18\/web-indexing-where-is-qwants-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"Web indexing: where is Qwant’s independence?"},"content":{"rendered":"
When it comes to search engines, there is still a lot of confusion between meta-search engines that simply display results provided by others in a different interface, and independent search engines that index web content themselves and have their own results ranking algorithms. At Qwant, we have taken the gamble since day one to create a true independent search engine<\/strong>, indexing the Web ourselves and developing our own algorithms, which allow us to provide you with the most relevant information without having to collect your personal data.<\/p>\n This is extremely important in order to guarantee European technological sovereignty<\/strong>. It was indeed abnormal that our knowledge of the Web depended on one or two American actors, who decide for 95% of Europeans what is relevant for their research, imposing their vision and interests.<\/p>\n We have invested heavily in the creation of our index and are investing more and more. At the time of publication, Qwant has in its servers 20 billion indexed web<\/strong> pages, and every day our crawlers go over more than a billion pages<\/strong> to add, delete those that no longer exist, or update all the information that concerns them. Qwant has to our knowledge the largest indexing capacity in Europe.<\/p>\n However, you still read too often that Qwant uses Bing, as if Qwant were just a simple meta-engine that does not have its own technologies. This error was relayed, for example, by the legal blog Precisement.org<\/a>, which makes a seemingly simple comparison between Bing’s results and those of Qwant, without knowing how things actually work in the background. He notes that 51% of the results are identical, which in passing shows that 49% are different. ” The index of Qwant and its search technologies, according to all appearances (…) are provided by Microsoft’s Bing<\/em> ,” he wrote.<\/p>\n