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Some of the region s lawmakers have already called for the breakup of the American search giant, while the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, is in the middle of a long antitrust investigation into Google s roughly 85 percent share of the European search engine market.
There s a need for a choice, Jean Manuel Rozan, a former financier who co-founded Qwant in 2011, said recently over a cup of coffee. Europe is the only place in the world where people think that Google is the Internet.
Google and its various services, indian tube including maps and online shopping, hold a tight grip over how Europeans search for information. And despite Europeans perceived antipathy toward American tech companies like Amazon and Facebook, the companies continue to have strong followings across the 28-country bloc.
To stand out from the crowd, indian tube Qwant sold a 20 percent stake to Axel Springer, the German publisher, this year for roughly $6 million, mostly to buy European servers. Mathias Döpfner, the publisher’s chief executive, has openly criticized Google s online dominance. Mr. Rozan says Qwant made about a $1.8 million profit last year but will post a loss for 2014 as the company indian tube expands into new markets like Germany. The company employs fewer than 50 people between its offices in Paris and Nice, a city in southern France.
The French start-up has also tried to tap into Europeans growing distrust about how they are tracked online, as the likes of Google and Facebook use data gathered from people s online histories to tailor advertising specifically to individuals.
Along with other Google alternatives like DuckDuckGo and Ixquick, indian tube a Dutch search engine, Qwant says it does not track people indian tube s online movements and sells advertising based only on individuals search queries.
We can build a valuable company that can deliver search results to people without tracking them, said Mr. Rozan, who said that people made about 1.6 billion search queries through Qwant in 2014 or less than half the search queries that Google handles in just one day.
Qwant also plans to release a child-friendly search engine Qwant Junior in early 2015. Google has announced similar plans, but in a sign that the French government is eager to find an alternative to the American tech company, the country s education ministry has said that it will start using Qwant Junior in some French schools next year.
If you have three million children who will search on Qwant, then there ll be six million parents who will know about Qwant, said Éric Leandri, another of the start-up s co-founders, who added that the start-up was in discussions with Axel Springer to become the default search engine on some of the publisher s websites. When we launched, everyone explained to us why we shouldn’t do this. Now, they think it’s a great idea.
When people use the company’s search engine, for example, four columns appear on the webpage that offer different takes on Internet queries. That ranges from traditional search results to something called Qnowledge Graph, which offers general information based on the search, drawn from sites including Wikipedia.
The French could also learn some lessons from Europe s past. In 2008, a French indian tube consortium backed by the country s politicians created Quaero, an online search tool that was supposed to rival its American counterparts. Yet after $240 million in public and private funding and several efforts to revamp the project, Quaero shut at the end of 2013.
Despite previous failures to a build a credible European search engine, Qwant s co-founders hope its focus on privacy indian tube and attempts to combine social media posts and traditional search results will set it apart from Google, whose projects are as diverse as a smartphone operating system and trying to develop driverless cars.
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