DuckDuckGo
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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
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- Online
- Microsoft Edge
- Google Chrome
- Tor
- Opera
- Mozilla Firefox
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Used map service is terrible, it has now some kind of ads for its service, search results are still far behind google.
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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
Has started its own censorship. Relies on non-free software such as Apple Maps instead of OSM. With it's end of partnership with Yandex will probably be just a shell for Bing results. As a long-time, DDG user, I should say I had to emigrate from it.
Used map service is terrible, it has now some kind of ads for its service, search results are still far behind google.
Very fishy and not trustworthy
Far better than Google. Perfect for privacy-respect people. Minimal and No AI preview by force.
+ Privacy-focused and no targeted ads. + Shortcuts that let you quickly search other sites. +/- Results are less biased than in Google but that sometimes means less accurate results
The best Google Search alternative. They dont track you at all, and has nice features such as !bangs and others. Another neat thing is that when you search up "xkcd" it shows you todays xkcd, amongst other features DDG has.