DuckDuckGo is the fourth most popular search engine in the U.S.
Fourth? Google, Bing...
I use Apple and Qwant. Duck-whatever is too liberal and clunky. Bing is nice and there are numerous of search engine alternatives.
Am I being overly skeptical when I wonder if Apple and my privacy are actually a good fit?
If Apple buys DDG, they lose 90%+ of current users on Day 1. I suppose they don’t care since the Apple Bois will more than make up for the loss. This would be a great loss to freedom of movement on the web.
I heard that DDG simply takes search results from Bing and Yahoo and forwards them anonymously. It doesn’t provide any value-added except privacy.
How is that worth $1 billion?
Their clients are effectively citizens who recoil with distrust from Big Tech.
Enter Apple, perhaps the second most evil Big Tech firm in they eyes of Duck Duck Go's clients.
Apple looks at the client base and revenue potential, and pays a lot of money for Duck Duck Go.
In other news today, The Brady Project and Michael Bloomberg are considering a tender offer for Strum, Ruger & Co.
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I remember Apple’s first browser - Cyberdog. The mascot resembled the one used by Dogpile.
I’ve always used duck, duck go.
I though that DuckDuckGo just anonymized requests to Google’s search engine.
All I want is a search engine like Google was back until they got really political around 2012 and then screwed the algorithm.
It isn’t just that google is political and creepy, it is that their basic product utterly sucks now.
The quality of search results has never been worse. Nothing you can do, quotes etc, improves it. Sometimes I search for something I KNOW exists and I have seen it before...now it take rejiggering my search terms 4 or 5 times and even then, usually I do not find what I wanted.
Often the search results are so for away from the obvious search terms that it is head shaking in its failure.
Other times it is overtly politically skewed.
If someone basically duplicated the Google of circa 2011-2012, they would destroy google.
Hands down better than any other search engine out there... Not even close...
The only hiccup occurred some eight-to-ten (?) years ago when Google made major changes to it's underlying engine and for a short time refused to give DDG back its access to the redesigned engine... As I remember, that lasted for just a week or two...