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People Are Increasingly Choosing Private Web Search
2022-01-06 12:29

The privacy-oriented search engine netted more than 35 billion search queries in 2021, a 46.4% jump over 2020.

The company, which bills itself as the "Internet privacy company," offering a search engine and other products designed to "Empower you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online without any tradeoffs," remains a rounding error compared to Google in search.

Or, at least, Google often gets me what I want faster than DuckDuckGo does.

To solve that, I use use the feature that allows me to use Google's search engine through DuckDuckGo: prepend "!Google" to searches.


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