Last updated on 20 February 2025
Finally. I mean, you could say. Qwant Junior is a search engine specially designed for an audience of young children from 6 to 13 years old.
A children's declination of the European search engine launched more than two years ago, Qwant Junior provides results adapted to a young audience by excluding from its pages content that could hit them.
Like the DuckDuckGo search engine, Qwant guarantees the anonymity of users. The service also has the advantage of being completely ad-free. The tool works with a double list: one white, the other black. A classic method. The blacklist identifies and blocks content related to violence, pornography, drugs and incitement to racial hatred. The white list highlights educational and pedagogical sites, which are grouped in an ‘Education’ tab in the vertical menu bar on the left of the screen.
Classic method, but which seems quite effective. The various tests I have carried out have been satisfactory. Even if it is still somewhat perfectible. A search for example in the images section on "attacks bets" will display images visible to a young audience. Yet there is still an isolated image showing victims on the ground. But in any case nothing comparable with a similar search on Google. And when you do an “inappropriate” search, you get it.
Qwant Junior can be installed as the default homepage or search engine on PC and Mac computers, but also on mobile devices.
The search engine, both fun and educational, is divided into 5 tabs: Web, News, Education, Images and Videos. The Education tab provides a list of sites and resources recommended by the Ministry of National Education and teachers who have been testing the tool for a few months. The engine also offers access reserved for teachers which you can reach from the homepage.
Last interesting function, the possibility after a quick registration to create notebooks. It is a place where young users, but also teachers, can create collections of links, videos, photos and notes collected on the web so that they can better share them.
QwantJunior is online and free.
Link: QwantJunior
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