<story><title>Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 46% in 2021</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/privacy-focused-search-engine-duckduckgo-grew-by-46-percent-in-2021/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>teitoklien</author><text>For day to day searching i use duckduckgo by default on every device. Not a lot because of privacy, something about that company ticks me off in terms of privacy.&lt;p&gt;I like duckduckgo’s interface and I feel they genuinely put a lot of effort to ensure people have a great experience using their search engine.&lt;p&gt;Whether its their !bang feature or integration with apple maps or their various themes. (Heck even their no js, search engine option is very cool too).&lt;p&gt;In terms of quality of links and interesting content, i havent come across a search engine better then marginalia[0] for that. But then i search for weird stuff, so who knows.&lt;p&gt;[0](&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;search.marginalia.nu&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;search.marginalia.nu&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;)</text></comment>
<story><title>Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 46% in 2021</title><url>https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/privacy-focused-search-engine-duckduckgo-grew-by-46-percent-in-2021/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>plorg</author><text>I switched my default to DDG about a year and a half ago after what I assume was am A&amp;#x2F;B test that filled the first 3 screen lengths with various Google Widgets, and 90% of the first page results were links to Google products which for the search query was not especially useful. And that&amp;#x27;s with ads blocked. I&amp;#x27;ve been bothered by Google&amp;#x27;s business practices for a long time, and have switched to Firefox as completely as possible, but I&amp;#x27;m still tied to Android. For some very specific searches Google is still better at surfacing good results. But even when Google results are really good I usually have to scroll past so much first party feature lard that the experience is taxing.</text></comment>