DuckDuckGo search engine

A lot of the ‘smart’ people are moving over to the DuckDuckGo search engine.

There are four reasons I can think of that could be contributing to this.

Firstly, DuckDuckGo provides secret searching be default. Unlike the Google search and, to a lesser degree, Microsoft’s Bing search, DuckDuckGo does not record and/or sell details of everything you do and everywhere you go. Sure, if you have the time and inclination and want to find and make all the right settings, and download and install a couple of Google add-ins, then you can make Google less nosy. But you can’t stop it all.

DuckDuckGo does not apply all of the blacklisting and site filtering lists that Google and (to a lesser degress) Bing do. Because Google and Bing are used a lot by schools and businesses, by default they apply a lot of blacklisting and much of this blacklisting is misplaced. Hence, you find more with DuckDuckGo. This is oversimplified and there is a lot more that could be said about this—but, in a nutshell, this is it.

DuckDuckGo will also search some of the safer ‘dark Web’ sites that Google will not—the ‘dark Web’ basically being defined as those Internet locations that Google does not index.

DuckDuckGo does not apply advertising loading to sites that causes certain collections of sites to conveniently come up in the top three pages of searches.

If you want to try DuckDuckGo then I have put the link under the image. Just click on the image to open DuckDuckGo in a new tab.