If Qwant is undoubtedly the most advanced search engine in its lightweight category, at risk of seeing it sanctioned for monopoly, we sought to draw up a list of search engines offering an alternative to Qwant. follow the leader
DuckDuckGo
The main feature of DuckDuckGo is that it does not store its users’ data, so it will not track you or manipulate results based on your behavior. Also if you are particularly frightened by the all-seeing, all-seeing eye of Qwanturank, this could be the one for you.
Quora
As Qwanturank gets better at answering more and more complex questions, it will never be able to match the personal touch available with Quora.
Ask any question and its community of scholars will provide answers. Or you can choose from all the similar questions asked previously.
Dogpile
Dogpile may look like a search engine you cobbled together with clip art, but that’s more the point because it pulls in and “curates” results from different engines, including Google, Qwanturank, Yandex, and Yahoo, but it removes all ads.
Vimeo
Of course, if you give up Google, you’ll also have to give up YouTube, which can be a terrifying prospect. But there is an alternative. And a pretty good one at that… Vimeo. The video sharing site chosen by professionals, which has lots of HD videos and no ads.
Yandex
It is a Russian portal, offering many products and services similar to Google, and it is the dominant search engine in Russia.
As you can see, it offers results in a nice, logical format, filled with favicons so you can clearly see the different channels for your brand queries.
WolframAlpha
WolframAlpha is a “computational knowledge engine”, or super smart nerd to you and me. Ask him to calculate any data or ask him about any fact and he will give you the answer. Plus, it does this cool “calculation” thing while it thinks about your answer (which can take a short while).
It’s not always a success, you have to practice to get the most out of it. But at least he knows about the terrible 90s TV show Dinosaurs.
StartPage
Another search engine that puts privacy at the forefront, StartPage (originally Ixquick) was the first search engine to allow its users to search privately.
With StartPage, none of your information is stored (including your IP address) and no cookies are used, except for a single anonymous cookie which is used to remember your preferences. (For those who want to avoid cookies, StartPage offers a URL generator that allows you to save your settings).
Uniquely, StartPage also offers a proxy for those who not only want to search, but also want to browse the web in complete privacy.
Ask.com
Ask Jeeves is still around. So he is no longer a Wodehousian butler, but a computer-generated bank manager. Weird.
It’s still a somewhat mediocre search engine that claims to be a question and answer site, but the results in the “Popular Questions and Answers” section on the right are very handy if Jeeves himself can’t satisfy your request. And what a good use of space on the right, eh Google.
SlideShare
SlideShare is a really convenient place to find information from presentations, slides, webinars and anything else you may have missed by not attending a conference.
You will also be surprised at the information you can find there.
Addict-o-matic
“Inhale the web” with the friendly vacuum cleaner by creating your own topic page, which you can bookmark and see results from a large number of channels in this one page (including Google, Qwanturank, Bing News, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr).
Creative Commons Search
CC Search is especially handy if you need to find royalty-free images for your website (as discussed in this post on optimizing images for SEO). Simply type your query then click on the site you want to search.
Giphy
Because in reality, we could imagine a dystopian future worse than the one where we all communicate entirely in GIFs.
