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I remember trying Qwant a few years ago and I wasn't really happy with it, both for search results and UI/UX. Staying with a Google search alternative, I went with DuckDuckGo and didn't look back (especially with access to g! to easily search on Google if ddg fails to dig up what I want)

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Qwant does support !g etc if you end up needing it.

Is there any reason to use Qwant over DDG, aside from a Francophone focus?

Not American and thus not subject to us intelligence surveillance.

Isn't it vice-versa? It's hard from a legal point of view to spy on one of your own, but it's easier to do it on a foreign entity?

> During the 2013 NSA leaks Internet spying scandal, the surveillance agencies of the "Five Eyes" have been accused of intentionally spying on one another's citizens and willingly sharing the collected information with each other, allegedly circumventing laws preventing each agency from spying on its own citizens.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement#Controversy

Yes. I was assuming an European perspective - also I don’t think any European intelligence service have anywhere near the capabilities of the US ones.

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