{"id":74,"date":"2018-11-16T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betterweb.qwant.com\/2018\/11\/16\/web-indexation-where-does-qwants-independence-stand\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T17:57:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T15:57:36","slug":"web-indexation-where-does-qwants-independence-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betterweb.qwant.com\/en\/2018\/11\/16\/web-indexation-where-does-qwants-independence-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Web indexation: where does Qwant\u2019s independence stand?"},"content":{"rendered":"
When it comes to search engines, there is still a lot of confusion between the meta-search engines that simply display results provided by others in a different layout, and the independent search engines that index web content themselves and have their own algorithms for ranking the results. At Qwant, we have been creating a true independent search engine since the first day, by indexing the Web ourselves and developing our own algorithms<\/strong>. This allows us to provide you revelant results without having to collect your personal data.<\/p>\n This is extremely important to ensure a real European technological sovereignty.<\/strong> It was in fact unusual for our knowledge of the Web to depend on one or two American actors, who decide for most of Europeans what is relevant to their research, by imposing their perception and their self-interest.<\/p>\n We have invested significantly in the creation of our index and are investing more and more every day. At the time we publish these pages, Qwant has 20 billion indexed web pages on its servers<\/strong>, and every day our crawlers go through more than a billion web pages to add, delete those that no longer exist, or update all the information \u00a0about them. To our knowledge, Qwant has the largest indexation capacity in Europe.<\/p>\n However, you still read too often that Qwant uses Bing, as if Qwant was just a simple meta-search engine that doesn\u2019t have its own technologies. This mistake, for example, was reported by the law blog Precisement.org, which makes a simple comparison between Bing\u2019s and Qwant\u2019s results, without knowing how things really work in reality. He notes that 51% of \u00a0the results are the same (which shows that 49% are different). \u201cQwant\u2019s index and its search technologies, by all appearances (\u2026) are provided by Microsoft\u2019s Bing,\u201d it writes.<\/p>\n