Duckduck go is ok, However it is very difficult to remove the last website visited. Right now the url box is stuck on the last page.
Tried it as a new search engine and went online shopping. Near the top of a list of searches for item I was after was online shop foresightclothing. Looked legit with padlock payments etc but but turns out is scam and I'm now £70 poorer. Tried other search engines like Google and Bing for same item and foresightclothing nowhere to be be seen in results. So DDG gives poor protection imo. Avoid at all costs.
Duckduckgo would have you believe that it is a program alternative to Google. But it is not. Once you load t on your computer, it does not appear in the program list and can't be easily removed. It takes over all your search imitations like a virus. You can't switch back a and fourth between search engine. It is hard to remove it and depending on your experience you might have to hire a professional to remove it. You have to wonder why they would do it this dishonest way and not make it a program that you can remove? What are the up to? Alternative to his BS virus is Incognito mode on Google. Much easier to use and turn on and off.
I saw this app one day and checked it out and I've had it ever since. It has protected me from a Amazon scam (fake Amazon). The guy was trying to get in my ph and duck duck go would not let him. And the scammer wanted me to go down the street to CVS and use their internet. Well, I didn't go and he tried to call me back. I blocked him and reported it to the real Amazon. So I recommend Duck Duck Go!
I am completely against Russian state sponsored disinformation and last night Putin told me in my dream that he uses Duckduckgo as his search engine. I can't stand such disinformation spreading search engine and hence I am choosing to not use it.
Thanks.
1. ZERO microphone capability
2. ZERO search title at top of results page
3. ZERO ability to back button to view what was typed on original search pg
All 3 are requisites when doing an internet search.
If you are incapable of adding these features to your search engine you fail any attempts to create anything similar to an internet search engine.
Privacy is not the requisite, efficiency is the requisite.
Isn't the whole point of this browser to answer question? For me everytime I ask a question it can never give me a clear answer, instead I must read 5 articles that never even give me a clear answer. These questions are not complicated! Although this browser provides more privacy, google does much better at its job. I do not recommend this browser.
I love the search engine in that it is private and I am not tracked. The only downside for me is that it does not allow for voice commands like Google. If they would add that feature, it would be perfect!
Any sensitive or taboo topic is heavily filtered from results. Duckduckgo doesn't seem to care if your interest is legitimate or if the taboo/sensitive label is justified, the results are simply filtered and censored.
Terrible browser. Like buying Walmart brand only in a browser. FB is difficult to navigate. Enlarging photos is hard too, Duckduckgo makes it difficult to manage Google images. All the way around it sucks; although it might me ok for someone (like an old lady) who isnt computer saavy who just wants to post casket photos on fb of all of her friends.
There are better alternatives. All search engines track. It's impossible for low cost or free services to make money without advertising, and that advertisers require some method of measurement, which involves…. Tracking
Using either the "-" negative sign or using logical function such as NOT does not eliminate the keywords. This makes a search engine useful.
The other issue is the results are become more and more biased towards what's popular in captalist marketing, Bing does this, be different.
Searching for best massagers to buy, only shows theragun type massage tools. I can not massage my upper back with those. Haha. And I have no friends.
Duckduckgo gives me much more accurate search results than Google! I know that Duckduckgo still uses improving.duckduckgo.com, but this just makes a few anonymous ads. There are very few ads, and they don't use any of your data! You don't even have to make an account! One thing that would be nice would be something like Google Scholar, where only credible websites appear. Much better than any other web browser!
Just as often as not when I want to see a geographical location--i. E., a map--this inept would-be search tool offers nothing but articles or images with no map option. Simply put, literally half my searches for locations end in Google. Why bother. Much like the false hype of Apple.
The duck sells your info to google, this can be seen with heavy ad choice ads all the time. Now they are redirecting and editing my search requests over hot button political searches. Total communist B. S!
Search is wrong. Ads everywhere I only tried duck duck go for something different. What I think everyone can do if they are worried about Google tracking is to download opera browser and use their VPN. It's free.
Firstly, Duckduckgo has no advanced search, which is annoying. When you try to highlight an image, it highlights all of them. Duckduckgo has no other services, like emailing on gmail, looking up where to go on maps or having a profile on G+. On google it's all connected, so when you use duckduckgo you need a seperate thing for everything. Google has just so many tiny things and easter eggs that duckduckgo just doesn't have the experience to add. In duckduckgo's advertisements, it says bad things about google when google really is the experienced one. It's a good principle but the product does not work. Also, have you ever heard of INCOGNITO MODE?
It is like a virus. Once in your computer you cannot get rid of it. Email them asking how, and no reply.
It might be the best search engine out there but when it acts like a virus, and keeps taking over my browser, I do not want it.
Wonder how many of the 5* reviews are just their spam. They are good at that
DuckDuckGo promote Scam websites to the top of their search lists, just like the others! I thought they were an ethical business, but found out to my loss (when I trusted their link) to buy a Rod Licence. They promoted a direct link into this scam website, which had the Environment Agency name on it, without any mention of additional fees etc.
Is there ANY search engines you can trust, now? I think not, they are all morally corrupt.
They may claim to not track you, but they do. I have a screenshot of what Ublock Origin blocked: 3 tracking cookies. Now Google does a lot worse, but it is false advertising. They also recommend IPhone over Android yet Apple has just as bad of a privacy policy as Google does. They also host their website on a Amazon web server, which Amazon is notoriously known for their terrible privacy practices.
DuckDuckGo has a rating of 2.3 stars from 223 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. DuckDuckGo ranks 234th among Search sites.