What Do You Think Of DuckDuckGo?

[DrRipley]

A brief description of DuckDuckGo (to the best of my knowledge) would be that it is a search site that uses Google search while still maintaining your privacy by keeping Google from tracking your cookies. I've used this in the past and the results were pretty much the same, other than a few minor differences like not getting search results links tailored to my preferences as the result of Google being able to track my activity.

I tried to use it for a while but I guess I'm just too used to Google and using its integration such as the "search item on Google" feature you can use when on Chrome so eventually I'd just end up using it again so I just basically gave up on DuckDuckGo.

 

[Tara]

I have used DuckDuckGo. I do like the search engine. It's a clean alternative to Google. By that I mean, there are no ads. The search results aren't exactly the same as Google. I just forget to use it. I have Google set as my homepage so I just us Google to do most of my searches.

 

[Michael]

I have not used DuckDuckGo, I have tried it after reading your post and really like it. It is clean because no classified ads and give appropriate results to the search queries.

 

[sam]

no search engine is satisfactory,and even though i haven't tried them all,google still appears to be the best in terms of results.
although duckduckgo's advantage is that it uses https by default.

 

[Victor Leigh]

I have used DuckDuckGo. It's also the default browser for Linux Mint, if I am not mistaken. Although I support the idea behind the browser, somehow I have become addicted to Google so I am still using Google.

 

[ozadin]

DuckDuckGo is a decent website. I heard when it first released on Reddit, and how popular it was for the day, however, I'm pretty sure the hype has died down now. I believe it was built to search anonymously, while there were hundreds of websites similar to DuckDuckGo before it even released. Most of the sites don't even work since you can't confirm if you're searching anonymously or not.

 

[Prince25]

Duck Duck Go is a pretty nice search engine. It seems that it uses Google search results.
I use Duck Duck Go whenever Google Searches say Sorry to me.

 

[Victor Leigh]

Duck Duck Go is a pretty nice search engine. It seems that it uses Google search results.
I use Duck Duck Go whenever Google Searches say Sorry to me.

I don't quite understand that. How does Google Searches say Sorry to you? Do you mean when Google cannot find what you are looking for?

 

[deven75]

Not too much but I have used it. If it keeps privacy then really i will use it permanently.

 

[bidaddy]

I’ve heard about DuckDuckGo a few times over the years, mostly as a name uttered in hushed whispers behind closed doors – “You don’t have to use Google. There is another way.”