<story><title>DuckDuckGo&apos;s traffic keeps growing</title><url>https://duckduckgo.com/traffic?2019</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcoseliziario</author><text>DDG is more neutral in political themes. You usually see some results that you wouldn&amp;#x27;t see on the first page on google. 
Google still has a slight advantage when searching for technical info, but most of times DDG is good enough for them too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paulddraper</author><text>Obviously lacks the privacy aspect, but I&amp;#x27;ve noticed Bing is also politically neutral.&lt;p&gt;This seems to be a Google-specific problem.&lt;p&gt;---&lt;p&gt;Example that I just double-checked: (I don&amp;#x27;t claim any political views here; &lt;i&gt;JUST an example&lt;/i&gt;)&lt;p&gt;Reddit&amp;#x27;s largest subreddit for a political candidate is r&amp;#x2F;The_Donald. Objectively, a rather popular site.&lt;p&gt;Google (with or without SafeSearch) returns &lt;i&gt;zero&lt;/i&gt; results for &amp;quot;Reddit The_Donald&amp;quot; linking to the subreddit. [1]  It&amp;#x27;s only results are indirect discussions about the subreddit.&lt;p&gt;Whereas DuckDuckGo, Bing, and Yahoo show the subreddit itself as the very first result. [2] [3] [4] (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;np.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;The_Donald&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;np.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;The_Donald&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; which is Reddit&amp;#x27;s public non-logged in site.)&lt;p&gt;So Google won&amp;#x27;t display a high-traffic site. I can only assume they find the content objectionable and so will not link directly to it. I understand how some may want that, but that&amp;#x27;s not a simply not a service I want my search engine to perform, especially when SafeSearch is disabled.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;search?q=Reddit+The_Donald&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;search?q=Reddit+The_Donald&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;duckduckgo.com&amp;#x2F;?q=Reddit+The_Donald&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;duckduckgo.com&amp;#x2F;?q=Reddit+The_Donald&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bing.com&amp;#x2F;search?q=Reddit+The_Donald&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bing.com&amp;#x2F;search?q=Reddit+The_Donald&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[4] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;search.yahoo.com&amp;#x2F;search?p=Reddit+The_Donald&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;search.yahoo.com&amp;#x2F;search?p=Reddit+The_Donald&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>DuckDuckGo&apos;s traffic keeps growing</title><url>https://duckduckgo.com/traffic?2019</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>marcoseliziario</author><text>DDG is more neutral in political themes. You usually see some results that you wouldn&amp;#x27;t see on the first page on google. 
Google still has a slight advantage when searching for technical info, but most of times DDG is good enough for them too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>benjohnson</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ll second this - Google is starting to hide things that it deems objectionable and I&amp;#x27;ve found myself using DDG now and then for controversial topics.</text></comment>