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> I'd rather see Qwant succeed, but their search is having trouble competing with even duckduckgo.

Why? (I use the latter.)

> Microsoft blatantly started serving the CCP by blocking queries for "tank man"

Works fine for me [1].

DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Ecosia, Yahoo, etc. they all rely on Bing (Some only for images)[1].

> Works fine for me

Not on June 4th[2] (the date when the Tiananmen Square massacre ended). Microsoft "fixed" it after the backlash.

It was temporarily censored around a critical time, and there was also some bullshit explanation floating around.

See the last paragraph in the Censorship section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man#Censorship