DuckDuckGo
Experience a privacy-focused search engine that doesn't track you, featuring Zero-click Info, instant answers, !bangs, and more, built from open-source software for a transparent, user-friendly online search experience.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Microsoft Edge
- Vivaldi
- Google Chrome
- Safari
- F-Droid
- Yandex Browser
- Tor
- Opera
- Mozilla Firefox
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Customizable
- Lightweight
- Support for Themes
- Distraction-free
Features
- No Tracking
- Bangs
- Online Anonymity
- Dark Mode
- No filter bubble
- Instant Answers
- No registration required
- Browser extension
- AI Chatbot
- Zero-click info
- Support for Let's Encrypt
- Safari extension
- No Logs
- AI-Powered
DuckDuckGo News & Activities
Recent News
- Fla published news article about DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser
DuckDuckGo launches free Personal Info Removal scans for Windows and Mac browsersDuckDuckGo has launched free Personal Information Removal scans for its Windows and Mac browsers, e...
- Fla published news article about DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo introduces persistent site exclusions to search resultsDuckDuckGo has introduced a persistent site exclusion feature, letting users block specific domains...
- POX published news article about DuckDuckGo AI Chat
DuckDuckGo adds access to GPT-5, Claude 4, and other AI models to its subscription planDuckDuckGo has expanded its paid subscription, formerly known as Privacy Pro, to include advanced a...
Recent activities
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What is DuckDuckGo?
DuckDuckGo is an alternative search engine that has rich features, respects your privacy, and is built from free/open-source software.
• Zero-click Info - Useful information above the links. • More Privacy - We do not track you. • Goodies - Instant answers, !bangs & settings. • Less Spam - We remove sites with just ads.
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- English
- Bulgarian
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
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- Polish
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- Slovak
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Comments and Reviews
Pros : ✅ Free, partially open-source and probably private ✅ Available as a default search engine on your browser, and as an app on Android, iOS, MacOS and Windows. ✅ Fast, relevant and customizable search engine. ✅ If you trust them, they are supposed not to track you and also block most trackers and dubious ads. ✅ Financed by untargeted advertising and their Premium "Privacy Pro" subscription ✅ Several search tabs: all, images, videos, news, maps, integrating Apple Plans, and more recently an AI chat, supporting GPT-3.5 from OpenAI and Claude from Anthropic. ✅ Numerous filters let you refine your search, especially in the images tab. ✅ Thanks to bangs, or shortcuts, you can perform quick searches from other sites, such as Google or Wikipedia.
Meh : ✅❌ "Hybrid" search engine: supplements its own technology with external sources, such as Bing. ✅❌ DuckDuckGo makes pirate streaming sites, YouTube mp3 converters and other controversial sites almost inaccessible. ✅❌ DuckDuckGo downgrades a large number of disinformation sites, including Russian propaganda sites.
Cons: ❌ In 2022, a scandal hit DuckDuckGo. The search engine, which is supposed to block all trackers, in fact lets in some of Microsoft's trackers, notably on the LinkedIn website. Revealed by IT security experts, DuckDuckGo finally admitted to an agreement with Microsoft to use Bing and eventually corrected its mistake. ❌ Some people complain that their search results are not relevant enough, especially since they are largely based on Bing. ❌ Some of the news redirects to MSN News, a Microsoft proprietary service
🙏 Thanks to the developers and the open-source and libre community.
🙏 Thanks to the YouTube videos of Techlore, Eric Murphy and Gwên - Tech for this information : ↳ Techlore : https://youtu.be/ma2qDOkvaJo ↳ Eric Murphy : https://youtu.be/Yjm6lGwqnGs ↳ Gwên - Tech : https://youtu.be/gBCPXnue3cI
ℹ️ Other sources: TechRadar and Numerama
Everyone knows that DuckDuckGo runs on Amazon servers in the United States and partnered with Yahoo. Why should we trust them?
Actually no. DuckDuckGo is on top of Google search engines attempting to keep your private info away from Google. But you're correct that they're now taking your info for themselves. StartPage (a supposed alternative) runs on top of Microsoft Bing. Pick your poison.
Nuncio here is incorrect, StartPage uses Google and Bing, DuckDuckGo only uses Bing (and has done so before through Yahoo). The Search Engine Map is a useful tool here: https://www.searchenginemap.com/
DDG used to be slightly worse than Google in terms of search result quality (it was a trade-off to get tracked less), but these days it's slightly better. Probably helps that they didn't put advertising execs in charge of the search engine.
Their AI summaries also have problems, but at least they cite their sources.
And while a lot of the results do come from Bing still, at least you're a bit more insulated from Microsoft than you would be using it directly.
No user profile, no tracking!
DuckDuckGo used to be a somewhat okay search engine option, but it has now become just as unusable as Google
Its results being pulled from Bing already limits its potential, but now DDG is also shoving in useless "AI features" like needless GPT chat options and "generated results" that make it harder to find what you are looking for. If you search for some thread on Reddit for instance, the "AI" will generate some slop that broadly describes the subject of a result, but not show actual text from the page, meaning specific information you might actually be searching for, that would normally be indexed, is no longer visible. This "feature" is enabled by default, and you must go into settings to disable it, which sets a browser cookie. If you were to open it in an incognito tab, the nonsense comes right back.
DDG has never actually provided any unique service of its own. It has always just been a proxy - whether it be to Bing or to ChatGPT. It has nothing to actually offer on its own, instead just grifting people for more attention and engagements, the last thing a supposedly "privacy-focused" service should do.
used to be great, now a bit of a data-selling minefield, would avoid, better options available
As much as I love privacy, Duck's reliance upon Bing means that it is not and never can be a true alternative to Big Tech.