It’s growing for sure but the link to the stats page is cumulative searches so it’s growing slower than the hockey stick graph would have you believe.<p><a href="https://duckduckgo.com/traffic" rel="nofollow">https://duckduckgo.com/traffic</a><p>Still impressive though
It is not a privacy browser, they track you<p>It's proprietary<p>They refused independent source audit<p>Their android app was leaking your browsing history to their servers: <a href="https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/527" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/527</a><p>They are operated from the USA, so government (CIA/FBI) has all the data they want, whenever they want
I've started using Bing. It's actually pretty good, but I do go back to Google for some stuff, usually looking up locations/stores etc.<p>Also pays in Tesco Supermarket vouchers (£5) every month or so for doing their little quizzes and then combined desktop/mobile searches which is nice.
I've been using Ecosia as my default search engine on desktop. It's fine for most things - but I sure miss the google cards... type NBA to get the games coming up and the recent scores... same thing for other sports... then I can type the name of a song and it shows me the lyrics and the music video... it's really convenient and that's the reason why I keep going back to google. If DuckDuckGo would implement that same style of cards I would switch to it.
As an alternative I've been using Ecosia, it seems to donate 80% or more of its profits to planting trees where they are needed most (from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosia" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosia</a>)<p>Also considered Privacy friendly: <a href="https://blog.ecosia.org/tag/privacy/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.ecosia.org/tag/privacy/</a>
Does anyone have any tips for using ddg? I feel like maybe I’m just not conditioned to how it thinks cause I seem to have terrible luck with my search relevance. People here seem to love it and I would love to switch over from google but I just can’t get the knack.
Can someone just add sport scores to DDG. I used it as my phone's default search for a while, but ultimately had to keep going back to google to get live results and schedules.
I've tried and keep trying every search engine worth looking at. I really want to get away from Google as much as possible. However I have yet to find anything that gives me anything approaching quality of results. This is of course my private opinion based on my needs and your mileage may vary depending on what you're looking for.
I switched because I got sick of Google telling me to get Chrome when I was using the new Microsoft Edge (which is a fork of Chromium like Chrome is).<p>Their pop ups when using Edge are an unjustified FUD campaign.