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qwant.com

Category: Search Engines

Scanned: May 23, 2026, 02:31 PM UTC · First seen: May 23, 2026 · Threat Engines: 0 / 91 · Times Scanned: 1
89 / 100 Trust Score Based on scan findings at the time of analysis
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Screenshot of qwant.com Captured May 23, 2026
https://qwant.com
Screenshot of qwant.com
16 years
Very Popular - #6,772 Tranco rank (>10M monthly visitors)
Not listed (91 checked)
✓ Valid (TLS)
OVH
Gravelines, France
Unknown
Unknown
141.95.150.143
Domain & WHOIS Information
Registrar Gandi SAS
Registered October 28, 2009
Expires October 28, 2026
Name Servers gns21.cloudns.net
DNSSEC Signed
Hosting OVH
Reputation & Threat Check 91 security engines checked
File Scan Summary Powered by Quttera Engine
90 files scanned
No threats
29
Low Risk
0
Medium Risk
60
High Risk
1
No threats Low Risk Medium Risk High Risk
www.qwant.com/8750bb349ab968b15e12_app.chunks.js 880.3 KB Flagged: high risk
www.qwant.com/?home=daily&amp%3bdrawer=cookies-management&drawer=cookies-management 145.4 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.qwant.com/?l=it 184.9 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.qwant.com/?l=br 155.5 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.qwant.com/?l=it&drawer=cookies-management 185.0 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.qwant.com/?l=en&drawer=products 145.2 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.qwant.com/?l=it&drawer=settings 185.0 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.qwant.com/?home=daily&amp%3bdrawer=products&drawer=settings 145.4 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.qwant.com/?l=fr&drawer=settings 231.7 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.qwant.com/?l=eu&drawer=settings 150.0 KB Flagged: medium risk
www.qwant.com/?l=pl&drawer=settings 179.0 KB Flagged: medium risk
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www.qwant.com.http-redirect 78 B No threats
www.qwant.com/mobile-apps?utm_campaign=w2m&utm_source=qwantcom&utm_medium=settings 137.6 KB No threats
www.qwant.com/bcf83dc428909f99877b_drawersettings-drawercookiesmanagement.chunks.css 22.7 KB No threats
www.qwant.com/en-black.8c4986ee.svg 10.6 KB No threats
www.qwant.com/https%3A%5Cu002f%5Cu002faddons.mozilla.org%5Cu002fes%5Cu002ffirefox%5Cu002faddon%5Cu002fqwantcom-for-firefox%5Cu002f 22.7 KB No threats
www.qwant.com/fr-black.fa603df2.svg 12.3 KB No threats
www.qwant.com/https%3A%5Cu002f%5Cu002faddons.mozilla.org%5Cu002fpl%5Cu002ffirefox%5Cu002faddon%5Cu002fqwantcom-for-firefox%5Cu002f 22.7 KB No threats
www.qwant.com/b286b5bb595d52f45abe_drawerlilosettings-drawerlilosettings%7Edrawersettings-drawersettings.chunks.css 22.7 KB No threats
www.qwant.com/mobile-apps?utm_campaign=w2m&amp%3butm_source=qwantcom&amp%3butm_medium=settings&drawer=cookies-management 137.7 KB No threats
www.qwant.com/c8969f81142adc494461_app.chunks.css 351.8 KB No threats
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External Links & Domains
299
External Links
1 Flagged
0
Iframes
Clean
22
Referenced Domains
1 Flagged
2
Flagged Resources
Detected
shdw.meFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://shdw.me/qwant-toolFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
https://shdw.me/qwant-toolFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
http://qwant.com/00851d6f262dc801d0dc_drawerlilosettings-drawerlilosettings~drawersettings-drawersettings.chunks.jsNot flagged
http://qwant.com/331124dbcf630efa56c2_drawersettings-drawercookiesmanagement.chunks.jsNot flagged
http://qwant.com/4db0dd43e0c40693ca36_drawersettings-drawersettings.chunks.jsNot flagged
http://qwant.com/4ec8526027d539c9caaa_runtime.phoenix.jsNot flagged
http://qwant.com/687ca90010a1a686c7dc_vendors~app.chunks.jsNot flagged
http://qwant.com/8750bb349ab968b15e12_app.chunks.jsNot flagged
http://qwant.com/9972b7afb4dee3c0aec0_apps-search-landing-landingapps-landingapps.chunks.cssNot flagged
http://qwant.com/?drawer%3Dcookies-managementNot flagged
http://qwant.com/?drawer%3DproductsNot flagged
http://qwant.com/?drawer%3DsettingsNot flagged
http://qwant.com/?home%3Ddaily&amp%3Bamp%3bamp%3bdrawer%3Dcookies-management&amp%3Bamp%3bdrawer%3Dcookies-management&amp%3Bdrawer%3Dcookies-managementNot flagged
http://qwant.com/?home%3Ddaily&amp%3Bamp%3bamp%3bdrawer%3Dcookies-management&amp%3Bamp%3bdrawer%3Dcookies-management&amp%3Bdrawer%3DproductsNot flagged
http://qwant.com/?home%3Ddaily&amp%3Bamp%3bamp%3bdrawer%3Dcookies-management&amp%3Bamp%3bdrawer%3Dcookies-management&amp%3Bdrawer%3DsettingsNot flagged
http://qwant.com/?home%3Ddaily&amp%3Bamp%3bamp%3bdrawer%3Dcookies-management&amp%3Bamp%3bdrawer%3Dproducts&amp%3Bdrawer%3Dcookies-managementNot flagged
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shdw.meFlagged: Generic Suspicious Object
about.qwant.comNot flagged
api.qwant.comNot flagged
apps.apple.comNot flagged
betterweb.qwant.comNot flagged
chrome.google.comNot flagged
dd.qwant.comNot flagged
discord.comNot flagged
help.qwant.comNot flagged
itunes.apple.comNot flagged
linkedin.comNot flagged
mn.qwant.comNot flagged
play.google.comNot flagged
qwant.comNot flagged
twitter.comNot flagged
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qwant.com Overview

Description of qwant.com

qwant.com appears to be the official website of Qwant, a web search engine and portal focused on general internet search. The page title and on-page branding describe it as a privacy-oriented search service, and the homepage screenshot shows a standard search interface with links to related products and services such as Qwant Junior.

Based on the domain age, traffic ranking, and category labels from multiple web-classification providers, this appears to be an established technology website rather than a newly created or placeholder domain. The service is associated with European hosting and messaging around user privacy, search, and web discovery.

Safety Assessment for qwant.com

The strongest reputation signals in this scan are favorable. The domain was not flagged by any of 91 security engines, major blacklist checks were clean, and the site has a long operating history of more than 16 years with measurable web traffic. Those factors generally reduce the likelihood of opportunistic abuse at the time of this scan.

One malware scan did report a large number of suspicious items and a generic suspicious-object label tied to a referenced external domain and several parameterized URLs. However, this appears to be a low-confidence heuristic pattern match rather than a broadly corroborated finding: the detections were not supported by the multi-engine scan results or blacklist databases, and the flagged threat name was generic rather than tied to a specific malware family. On established, script-heavy websites, this kind of result can sometimes reflect false positives or aggressive heuristic scoring.

Taking the full scan context into account, qwant.com appears to present low risk overall. Based on available scan data, no significant threats were detected at the time of this scan.

Technical Description

The domain is mature, registered through Gandi SAS, and has been active since 2009. DNSSEC is enabled, which helps protect DNS integrity, and the site presented a valid SSL/TLS certificate issued by Gandi with expiry in July 2026. Hosting appears to be with OVH in Gravelines, France, which is consistent with the site's European positioning.

No blacklist-based security issues were identified in the provided checks. The main technical concern in this scan is the single heuristic malware scan that flagged numerous JavaScript and query-string URLs plus one referenced external domain, but this was not corroborated by broader reputation data. The web server and protocol details were not identified in the scan output, so that portion of the server configuration could not be independently assessed here.

HTTP Redirect Chain
302 https://qwant.com/
307 https://www.qwant.com/
302 https://qwant.com/
200 https://www.qwant.com/
Website Insights
#6,772
Tranco Rank
Very Popular
Visitors >10M/mo
Category: Search Engines
Rank History (30 days)
Apr 13 May 22
6 cookies detected
Essential6
Analytics0
Advertising0
Social0
6 1st party cookies
0 3rd party (trackers)
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