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.
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- Free • Proprietary
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United States
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- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Microsoft Edge
- Vivaldi
- Google Chrome
- Safari
- F-Droid
- Yandex Browser
- Tor
- Opera
- Mozilla Firefox
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- POX published news article about DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo launches AI Chat for anonymous interaction with popular AI modelsDuckDuckGo, the well-known privacy-centric search engine, has unveiled DuckDuckGo AI Chat, a featur...
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No, DuckDuckGo didn't remove most search filters, it was just temporaryPrivacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has released an update that temporarily removed most searc...
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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...
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- Updated Mar 24, 2025
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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/
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.
It is a great alternative with good results!
DuckDuckGo used to be a great privacy-oriented search engine. Now they're pretending to be "AI" (whatever that means) such that every time you open the app it's already typing away trying to act like an artificial person. What's the point? You're wasting my CPU by typing gibberish on the screen. No thanks.