I've only used it a bunch of times but it never really stuck for me. But that was a while ago. Privacy is what I hear, but curious to see other thoughts on it.
I've only used it a bunch of times but it never really stuck for me. But that was a while ago. Privacy is what I hear, but curious to see other thoughts on it.
Yes I do, why? For privacy, as Duckduckgo doesn't track your searching behavior or anything.
And for avoiding the search bubble. Because, as a result of them not tracking your search history, they will not be able to create a search bubble the way Google does always do.
Now, what's the search bubble?
Well, I have a sheer interest in photography, and I often look up stuff about photography, like camera's, photocontests, ...
And you, you are totally not interested in photography, but you have bad eyes, and been looking at ophtalomoligists, and glasses etcetera.
When I go to Google now, and search for "lens", I will get only camera lenses in my resultlist.
When you go to to Google now, and search for that same "lens", you will get only eye-lenses.
While actually, you may be looking for information about the lenses on the hubble space telescope, and I might have been getting bad eyesight, and want to learn more about that.
With Duckduckgo, we will both receive the same list of results, with photographic camera lenses, telescopic space lenses and eye lenses, all cleanly listed.
And if that isn't enough reason for you yet: Duckduckgo is a nice little company with good intentions from Pensylvania. While Google is a big international giant trying to rule the world :-)
I use it is by far the best search engine on the net. The results are relevant, the interface far superior to the competition, to the point that when I have to use another search engine, it often makes me cringe.
The search for images in particular is very practical, the ability to change the geographical context is just great.
There is also the fact that they do not spy on you like old perverts, but even without considering this philosophical difference, they already prevail in the quality of the product.
Frankly, it does not take a minute to change the search engine. It's one of the great mysteries of humanity, for me, there are still so many pigeons using Google.