What is DuckDuckGo? How to use the search engine as a more private, tracking-free alternative to Google

DuckDuckGo is an alternative search engine that prioritizes its users' personal privacy and security.
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This self-hosted search engine uses Google, but still protects your privacy

While there are plenty of privacy-focused browsers to choose from, as well as search engines that block trackers, you may come to miss Google Search if you're used to its ability to comprehensively ...
The Washington Post

I broke up with Google search. It was surprisingly easy.

My experiment in ditching Google search felt like quitting coffee. The first few days, I was jittery. I kept double searching on Google and DuckDuckGo, the non-Google web search engine I was using, to ...
Ars Technica

Google’s nightmare: How a search spinoff could remake the web

Google wasn’t around for the advent of the World Wide Web, but it successfully remade the web on its own terms. Today, any website that wants to be findable has to play by Google’s rules, and after ...