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Axel Springer Backs Privacy Friendly Qwant
- Gigaom, Thursday, June 19, 2014 2:28 PM
The German publisher Axel Springer has bought a minority stake in a French search engine called Qwant, which focuses on user privacy and sorts its results into streams for the web, news, social, shopping and so on. Axel Springer spokesman Michael Schneider said the publishing house – which is getting into digital in a big way – saw search as crucial to its various websites in general.
