DuckDuckGo is a search engine that procured more than a billion of searches since its launch.DuckDuckGo is prevailed over Google and Bing by many users due to its distinguishing feature of protecting users privacy. It is included as an optional search engine in Safari browser and Mozilla Firefox.
The search engine guarantees to protect the users information including the searchers IP address. The company also assures the protection of the user’s search history from the company itself.
While the search engines like Google and Bing pass on the searcher’s information including IP address automatically even in the incognito mode to the sites visited, DuckDuckGo promises to conceal the user’s personal information from the visited sites.
Basically, the Duck Duck Go redirects the search request in a manner wherein the users’ search items are not sold to the other sites. Although the sites know that you visited them, they are completely oblivious of your search and personal information.
DuckDuckGo spotlights mainly on preventing search leakage also described as filter bubble.
DuckDuckGo avoids the filter bubble of the search results wherein the search engine postulates what user would like to see based on the user’s personal information, their past search history, and location.
Search engines like Google are obliged to filter bubble wherein different search results are shown to different people depending on users past search history.
The search engine also lets the user add the bookmark and DuckDuckGo chrome extension. This will let searchers see the answers from search engines like Google or Bing search result page. DuckDuckGo also lets the user search a specific content in a super easy way by its unique feature like! Bangs.
For instance, if you wish to grab some details from a particular website you don’t need to open the website. Just type the! tagged by a letter and search query. Say you want to open amazon just type in !a and there you go.
There are numerous bangs available and you can search them by just typing ! in the DuckDuckGo and you can see the list of websites that you can reach with few clicks.
If you are sure of what you are looking for on the internet and want the results to appear faster, DuckDuckGo serves the best.
The search engine presents some cool features like easy customization of navigation by clickety-clacks to the way you like it to be.
DuckDuckGo bestows some extremely amazing attributes for software developers wherein the search engine vouchsafes instant answers pertaining to the software codes.
For example, coders can get the instant results for the queries like converting numbers from binary to hexadecimal or showing up HTML values for the list of special characters.
Switch from Google Search to DuckDuckGo
Type the URL https://duckduckgo.com/ in the Chrome address bar. This will open the DuckDuckGo website in a new tab.
Click on Add DuckDuckGo to Chrome and click on the ‘Add Extension” to add this extension.
Customize and Control Google Chrome by hovering the cursor on the top right corner.
Click on setting in the drop-down menu which opens the Setting window.
In the Setting window, go to the Search Engines Option.
Under Search Engine go to Manage.
Find DuckDuckGo.
Select the option Make Default in the options menu.
That’s all.
Once you make DuckDuckGo as your default search engine, all the future searches will be available from the new search engine.
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