DuckDuckGo

Good luck finding any products other than what is offered by Amazon. Seriously frustrating. When searching for a specific product, 100% of the results are Amazon links. When I type -amazon at the end of the search, there are NO "product" results. I highly suspect DDG is owned or otherwise affiliated with Amazon - and anyone who thinks Amazon isn't going to track users (and subsequently LIE about it across the board...) think again.

I can comment on my looking at getting the app. When I was about to install the duckduckgo app it wanted to be installed to chrome. When I left the article that linked me to the app, and trying another way, every way was connected to Google. You get the app from Google store. They have a youtube video. Regardless of what they are trying to portray about how our privacy is protected using their service and how it's not by using Google. Well I am not real tech savvy so it is possible that I could be wrong but I can't help but think they are connected to Google. I've added 8 screenshots...

I fell for the hype, but have paid with a lot of wasted time and effort. Even searching for a document name directly does not lead you to the document, while the same search on Google has the document on the second search result. The image search is worse; try looking for the famous photo of Donald Trump outside of the Scottish parliament while a comedian demonstrated the law of static electricity with a balloon and Trumps wig. You won't find it on any Duckduckgo search results neither will you find image search results for his sons safari kills... Duckduckgo fails at it's only major objective, being a reliable search engine that provides relevant and useful results!

I saw this app one day and checked it out and I've had it ever since. It has protected me from a Amazon scam (fake Amazon). The guy was trying to get in my ph and duck duck go would not let him. And the scammer wanted me to go down the street to CVS and use their internet. Well, I didn't go and he tried to call me back. I blocked him and reported it to the real Amazon. So I recommend Duck Duck Go!

Duckduckgo gives me much more accurate search results than Google! I know that Duckduckgo still uses improving.duckduckgo.com, but this just makes a few anonymous ads. There are very few ads, and they don't use any of your data! You don't even have to make an account! One thing that would be nice would be something like Google Scholar, where only credible websites appear. Much better than any other web browser!

By now all of us know that Google tracks you, and also owns Yahoo. Its like finding a clingy person you don't know, trailing after you all over town and making notes on everything you do. WOW! George Orwell just winked at me! Well now, we don't have to worry anymore about this creepy problem. Duck Duck Go.com is a new browser that gives you complete privacy. It does not track or bubble its clients, and says this, right up front, in writing. Duck Duck Go serves up tons of concise info in response to your search. They even personally acknowledge you for using " the Duck" by email. So next time someone tells you to DUCK IT, you don't have to run for cover.

Previously I was more critical on duckduckgo but I am converting my opinion.

Their search function may not be as good as google but then they are not also compiling a database of everything you do on-line and then further sharing it with other organizations (including the government) behind your back. Our best hope is that we support this tool so that they can hopefully continue to improve it and to provide a counterbalance to organizations that are not interested in maintaining real user privacy.

For those interested in knowing more about this issue I recommend the following podcast:
https://fs.blog/gabriel-weinberg/

Hardly. And Bing works with very respectable algorithms.

But DuckDuckGo is a feature-rich semantic search engine, that gives you countless reasons to leave Google behind. Searches are divided into a classic search, information search, shopping and their own spin-off from Google, "I'm feeling ducky.":: cough::

If you search for a term that has more than one meaning, it will give you the chance to choose what you were originally looking for, with its disambiguation results. For example, searching for the term Apple will give you a long list of the possible meanings including the fruit, the computer company, the bank and many others.

Happy Ducking?
Ron.

If you scroll down the list of reviews here you will notice that the reviews with 1 and 2 stars have the most votes for being helpful. A blind man can see this is a deliberate attack in an attempt to discredit the DuckDuckGo search engine.

This is a free service that does not play the privacy violation games that google does. Also, google is politically liberal in its search results when using it for searching about politicians. I am so sick of the Internet telling me who to vote for. So far I do not find DuckDuckGo doing this.

Like most people, I've long used google. But google starts to get downright offensive when I look up say a 20" pink bicycle for my niece on my phone, then my phone starts popping up ads for all these 20" pink bicycles on every site I visit on my work computer. Or when google prompts me (when location tracking is OFF) to write a review for the burger & beer joint I stopped at last month, and the clothing store I entered, so forth and so on. No thank you!
Enter duckduckgo -- an alternate search engine. Simple. Gives me the results I want without all the ridiculous tracking I don't. They don't track search history, just give the search results. Isn't that what a search engine is supposed to do?! I've been using it for 6+ months without any issues at all. Highly recommend.

Let make this clear this search engine is far from perfect, but when you start comparing it to the other search engines out there, duckduckgo will be the best choice at our current time with it policies and good algorithm simple ui. And I think it will improve as it grows and more people start to use it while insisting that the company should not change form it mean goal as a neutral search engine that respects people's privacy. Also some people won't care that much about the name but I think they are better finding a smaller easier name to make it more attractive to use.

As a person who spends the greater part of his workday conducting online research via search engines, I have tracked Duckduckgo's journey from an okay search engine to the top publicly available search engine. The minimal paid placements and the absence of bias allows me to find the exact information I am looking for without having to scroll to the second or third page - which is currently the case with Google. I do not have the technical knowledge to vouch for the validity of the no-tracking claim, but the simplicity of getting to the information I need without being spoon-fed useless information makes Duckduckgo my search engine of choice.