The company handles 6 million search requests per day. So, the company pays Google to use its APIs but obfuscates users' details via a web proxy, removing all the trackers and logs. If you're looking for a drop-in Google (or perhaps Bing) replacement DDG is a prime candidate.Ĭons: Some questions over relationship with Yahoo/Verizon Startpageĭutch search engine Startpage begins with the premise that - bar the tracking and everything that goes with it - Google's search results are the best. There's a video search and also news, maps (Apple/Bing) and ‘meanings' (i.e. It used to be US-centric unless manually configured otherwise whereas now it bases searches on IP-based location image search is also better than before, although as a publisher we'd appreciate a usage rights filter. Source code is hosted on GitHub.ĭDG seems to have improved over the last couple of years. DDG is the default search engine on Tor Browser. There are apps for Android, F-Droid and iOS which feature tracker blockers and force traffic encryption. ‘Bangs' (search shortcuts starting with an exclamation mark starting a query with !a searches, for example) are a longstanding DDG feature and there are now more than 13,000 of them. ads that are interest-based rather than targeted through profiling) and through affiliate relationships with Amazon and eBay. This means that suggested searches are possible, unlike with some privacy-oriented engines.ĭDG earns revenue by serving keyword-based search ads (i.e. In addition, the company stores no user information other than the search terms used. DDG redirects the search so that the site cannot identify the searcher (although sites may still be able to identify you by your device's characteristics). If you click a search link on Yahoo or Bing directly those engines share your search terms with the target site together with information such as your IP address and browser configuration which can be used to identify you. DuckDuckGo (DDG) is perhaps the best-known privacy-focused search engine, performing 50 million searches a day.Īs a metasearch engine, DDG pulls search results from other sources, most notably Yahoo/Bing but there are around 400 others too. Privacy search companies seem to revel in peculiar names, perhaps with a view that if you are going to take on a foe as mighty as Google you need to make sure you stand out.
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