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    New Find - Qwant Search Engine

    Qwant was launched in France in February 2013, after two years of research and development. The search engine, which is now European, continues to grow and innovate, and the whole Qwant team is proud to present the new version which includes:

    A modern and clutter-free design
    A layout created with the user experience in mind
    New, more extensive search functions
    An interface adapted for mobiles and tablets

    However, this version hasn’t forgotten the basic principles on which Qwant was founded. In fact, our search engine doesn’t track its users and doesn’t filter web content. We promise to respect users' privacy, whilst also guaranteeing a secure environment and relevant results. So, when you create a Qwant account, we collect the minimum of information necessary for access to all our services, putting "data minimisation" into practice. On that note, we invite you to create an account in order to enjoy advanced functions, such as boards and bookmarks, or simply to save your Qwant settings more easily.
    https://www.qwant.com/about

    Try a search:

    https://www.qwant.com/?q=Donald%20Trump&t=all

    tweak your settings here:

    https://www.qwant.com/settings

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    Does Qwant support case sensitive searches ? None of the well known ones do, the last ten years or so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    Does Qwant support case sensitive searches ? None of the well known ones do, the last ten years or so.
    You won't find that feature in large scale search engines.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    You won't find that feature in large scale search engines.
    You mean that search the entire web ? It did exist originally. Maybe as recently as 2007 or 2008, if I remember correctly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    You mean that search the entire web ? It did exist originally. Maybe as recently as 2007 or 2008, if I remember correctly.
    80% of web searches are done all lower case...I'm not sure why you would need Case sEnsitive?

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    Are you guys familiar with dogpile.com? I'm so tired of the way google tracks everything... if I'm looking for flights, everywhere I go that has ads, like FB, the next thing I know, I see ads about flights, or shoes or appliances... sheesh.

    I will be giving Quant a good honest go of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    80% of web searches are done all lower case...I'm not sure why you would need Case sEnsitive?
    There are examples where if one searches for a title that is capitalized or an abbreviation that is all capitals, one gets a million hits involving the non-capitalized word and say a few hundred of them are what one is searching for. I've had this problem a few times before but there are many examples.

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    Quote Originally Posted by A.J. View Post
    Are you guys familiar with dogpile.com? I'm so tired of the way google tracks everything... if I'm looking for flights, everywhere I go that has ads, like FB, the next thing I know, I see ads about flights, or shoes or appliances... sheesh.

    I will be giving Quant a good honest go of it.
    I made it my default about a week ago and it hasn't let me down yet. I've tried others but they usually fall down on some searches forcing me back to google, so far so good with Qwant. I also like how they group web, news and social results on one page, I feel more informed.. lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    There are examples where if one searches for a title that is capitalized or an abbreviation that is all capitals, one gets a million hits involving the non-capitalized word and say a few hundred of them are what one is searching for. I've had this problem a few times before but there are many examples.
    Search engines score pages on a few hundred different factors, case not being one of them so you are probably out of luck. Not sure what you are talking about though..

    Cleveland Indians

    and

    cleveland indians

    should return the same result set.

    Do you search in English or Norwenglish, whatever you guys use for language over there?

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