DuckDuckGo launches Search & Stories app

Just gave it a try... This is so much better than the previous DuckDuckGo app. Focusing on stories and leveraging the search capabilities of ddg is genious (at the bottom of every news there&#x27;s a &quot;suggested searches&quot; menu with very useful suggestions).<p>Cherry on the cake ? HN is one of the available sources for stories!

I&#x27;m a bit confused about the &quot;Stories&quot;. What does it mean? Is it articles? Blog posts?

This app goes against the grain of DDG.<p>Frankly I&#x27;m not interested in stories, I&#x27;m interested in search. I get my stories elsewhere.<p>When I start the app I want to have a keyboard come up so that I can type in keywords. I don&#x27;t want to see stories or to have to tap a second time just to activate the text input area. Then I want the results to open in the external browswer of my choice.<p>Is there a DDG app that does this?

DDG might be fresh, safe and secure and have nice features; its search is still very, very weak.

I apparently have to have an account on Google play to download this app.<p>Which means that in order not be tracked by Google (by using duckduckgo) I have to agree to be tracked by Google (by accepting their &#x27;privacy&#x27; policy).<p>This seems to obviate the utility which I may have gained from using the app.

Anyone know where the images are coming from?<p>Most of them aren&#x27;t pulled directly from the story. There are also copyright issues with images that make this legally tricky to pull off.

Installed it right away and... I love this app! Looks well polished. Easy bang search with a list of available sites right there nicely grouped. A lot of news sources (HN included) and you can suggest more or add&#x2F;remove any. Region bubble is supported, but disabled by default. <i>Save recent</i> is also disabled. Such care for user privacy is so surprising in mobile apps, it makes me giddy :)

I don&#x27;t want the app. Arrg! I am on my iPad and I can&#x27;t get to what I assume is a web interface to this... Only a big ugly page with half-showing icons for how to download the android or iOS apps. Why can&#x27;t I just exit out of the offer and see the desktop version? Rawrrrrr!

Just give it a try. Seems like a nicely designed app. !bangs are nicely integrated and search works well. There are a large number of sources you can choose your &#x27;stories&#x27; page to be populated from and it seems like it is surfacing interesting content.

Very nice, really like the interface and story display on the home screen. Seems fast. I don&#x27;t usually use apps for search, instead going to browser first, but I might try this app for awhile.

Have been using DuckDuckGo for the last few days (because of the PRISM incident). I feel it just redirects the query to Bing and then displays the result. Can&#x27;t take it seriously.

Is this news? I downloaded it a few days ago. When did it launch?

You don&#x27;t need any additional app(s). Dolphin Browser already supports DuckDuckGo directly. Any other browser also should have search engine configuration options. (Don&#x27;t you guys remember, I won&#x27;t install your app discussion.)

is there a way I can change the default Google now shooing on android (the one at the very bottom of the screen) to this?

Does this app use SSL?

This is neat! :)

So awesome. But please make an app for us BlackBerry Z10 users. Blackberry&#x27;s encryption and privacy features is a nice fit with Duck Duck Go&#x27;s anonymous search.<p>Don&#x27;t forget us!