Qwantbot — What It Is and How to Handle It

Qwantbot is the web crawler for Qwant, the French privacy-focused search engine. Based in Europe, it indexes websites while prioritizing user privacy and data protection, offering search results without tracking users.

Operator: Qwant | Type: Search Engine | Category: Search Engine

Qwantbot is a search engine crawler. Blocking it may affect your visibility in its associated search engine. Most publishers choose to allow verified search engine crawlers.

Centinel automatically detects Qwantbot using behavioral fingerprinting. When detected, you can allow it, block it, challenge it with an interstitial page, or set a per-request licensing fee — all enforced in real-time with under 2ms latency.