No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is qwant.com legit or a scam?
Qwant is a legitimate privacy-first European search engine with a clean scan record and 16-year-old domain.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as a privacy-respecting search engine that does not track or sell user data and is hosted in Europe. The strongest trust signal is the domain age of 6051 days combined with verified French business registration dating back to 2011. Our antivirus network and browser blocklists returned completely clean results with no flags. The hosting IP shows zero abuse reports and the SSL certificate is valid. Positive mentions appear on independent review sites while zero scam reports or complaints were located.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for qwant.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Launched February 2013 as French search engine focused on privacy; does not track users or resell data (Wikipedia, official site)
- Operates from Paris, France; maintains its own web index and algorithms (Wikipedia, Qwant help center)
- Business model relies on keyword-based ads; no user profiling or tracking cookies (Qwant help center)
- Acquired in 2023 by OVHCloud founder Octave Klaba after prior funding and operational challenges (French Tech Journal)
- Positive discussions on Reddit (r/degoogle, r/privacy) as Google alternative; Chrome/Firefox extensions available with 200k+ users
- Security scan shows grade A headers including CSP, HSTS (securityheaders.com)
- Offers Qwant Junior for children; apps on Google Play/App Store emphasizing privacy since 2013
French search engine company created May 2011 / launched Feb 2013, HQ Paris; founders Jean-Manuel Rozan, Éric Léandri, Patrick Constant; investors include Caisse des dépôts et consignations (20%), Groupe Axel Springer (20%); acquired 2023 by Octave Klaba (OVHCloud founder)
Our research found no scam reports or complaints. Two positive reviews were located on independent review sites praising the privacy focus. Business registration records confirm an active French company founded in 2011, launched in 2013, and acquired in 2023 by the founder of OVHCloud.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 5 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1302https://qwant.com/
- 2200https://www.qwant.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on qwant.com and not a lookalike like q-want.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on qwant.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- qwant.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 89/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. qwant.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Gandi · Gandi RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA 3, expiring in 50 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- qwant.com is 16.6 years old, registered on 10/28/2009 through Gandi SAS. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report qwant.com as clean.
- No. qwant.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- qwant.com resolves to an IP operated by OVH SAS in FR (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
Final Verdict
Qwant.com is a privacy-focused European search engine. Our analysis finds it safe with zero malicious detections, a domain over 16 years old, and confirmed active French business registration. Users seeking a non-tracking search option can use it normally.
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