As a French I don’t recommend Qwant

• Lies of the management team
• Use Azure services (especially for the search index) rather than OVH services (for a service that claims a certain European sovereignty it’s not great…)
• Bad search results

My last try was several years ago, maybe it has changed-

Removed by mod

https://www.betterinternetsearch.com

it’s optimized for french, also works for english but it’s not ideal

They show ads from Microsoft, the question is how far the algorithms are involved with these types of ads?

I use it for quite some time and am happy with it. I have not noticed bad search results but also have not compared really. I general I have found what I was looking for.

last time I tried their search page was very javascript heavy. results were kindof meh but I used it for a couple of months then the slow speed started becoming annoying so I stopped using it. Around the same time, I was trying Ecosia as well, trying out the European search engines, because of their privacy stance.

But they got annoying and Qwant (afaicr) even started showing captcha. I don’t even search that much. Ecosia didn’t implement a dark interface. not that important but kinda blinding during night. So left them both for searx

Tried Qwant before, didn’t really like it.

And Startpage?