Qwant is led by one of the most questionable CEO in France. Driven by pure ego and bad management. Instead of building one good product (search), they tried to compete with almost everyone, and especially with every Google products (qwant mail, qwant maps, qwant music, etc.)
The history of Qwant itself should be a big red-flag.
At this point, why keeping the brand?
They have no real IP of interest and they are only associated with bad things... for the few people that knows them.
The only thing that is stable in its history, is the public funds put in there...
Now I assume that it's the only reason for Qwant to exist: to get public funding and do everything but an actual European search engine/index.
Also, Octave is quite successful on his hardware/network ventures, it's the complete opposite for the software/service part.
OVH would be much more popular if they knew how to make software, which is a decent Manager.
Hubic is another disaster from Roubaix.
So this partnership is pretty meaningless for us I'm afraid.
I've been using Qwant, people have to be paid and there was never silence about the difficulties that qwant had. In fact, it would be odd if they would be hiring people and not really clear how they are being paid.
