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Very very slow
Bing has very slow load times compared to other engines.
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Advanced image search
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USA Based
USA based = no privacy. Don't trade ease of use over privacy!
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Incentivizes use by offering rewards
First 15 searches of the day earn 1 credit each. Credits can be exchanged for various things such as gift cards, discounts, or memberships.
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No advanced search page
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Owned by Microsoft
Guaranteed censorship, guaranteed bias, and guaranteed absolutely no privacy.
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Based in Switzerland
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They have a VPN and privacy-focused email service coming out soon
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Privacy-focused
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Gives great and relevant results
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Free with optional paid plans.
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Uses only Bing and Ecosia results
The latter of which could be their own crawler.
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Run by a non profit organisation dedicated to privacy and data protection
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Open Source
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They signed a censorship agreement in 2019
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Based in Europe
Stricter data privacy protections as compared to the US.
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intuitive design, loved social media section and qwant music.
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Does not allow to limit search result to last year
Max. limit is past month.
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Respects privacy
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Slow
It is slow. It loads like 5 images in 5 seconds whereas Searx and DuckDuckGo load almost everything in 5 seconds (10MB/s internet).
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Relevant results
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Requiers JavaScript
Without enabled JavaScript you can't even type your search request.
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Modern and intuitive design
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Anti-user
Very hard to set up, not user friendly and the level of privacy and security cannot be verified.
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Most private search engine
Since it can be hosted on your own server/ computer, it is very private, nothing leaves your computer. No cookies or ads too.
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Not very mobile friendly
Needs WSL2 for windows, and works natively on macOS and Linux, but no support for Android or iOS.
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Activism censorship
They started to block results based on activism.
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Very protective of user privacy
DuckDuckGo does not collect or share any personal information. Their privacy page has a great rundown on why privacy is important. The most important repercussion of this is that DDG doesn't use the data collected to tailor results, avoiding exposure to the "Filter Bubble".
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Downranks results on owners whim
Company announced that they are downranking misinformation results from Russia.
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Ads are non-obstructive and don't track you
The ads are clearly labelled as ads and are non-obstructive. The ads are based on the searched keywords and there's no tracking involved on their visibility. You just need to remember that the site the ad links to might track you.
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Downranks "misinformation" results
Company announced that they are downranking misinformation results about the war by Russia media, after Russian's invasion of Ukraine.
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It's mainstream
This is the biggest private search engine there is.
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Irrelevant search results
They store no information about you (theoretically a pro) but this results in absolutely awful search results, and having to modify your search terms 4-5 times to get what you are looking for.
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Lets you go to other sites
You can go to the Wikipedia page for pigs by doing !w pig.
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Horrible search results
They store no information about you (theoretically a pro) but this results in absolutely awful search results, and having to modify your search terms 4-5 times to get what you are looking for.
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Sometimes results are better than Google
Sometimes the search results are better. Most of the times, they're at least as good as.
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Search results are often unrelated and limited
Common conversions do not work, i.e. searching for 15F to C does not give you the conversion but just a bunch of conversion websites. Very frustrating. It's a simple thing but makes a huge difference to the browsing/searching experience. Also location based only works for the country you're in. Searching for, say, McDonalds only gives country results for McDonalds and no local results such as where a local restaurant may be. Not very helpful.
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Can function without JavaScript
Of course, it's nicer when enabled, but it's not required. Some browsers are too limited (mobile, terminal) or turn it off for security reasons (tor, etc.), and DDG still works.
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No date information in search results
In search results, there are no dates when the pages were published, which doesn't allow you to immediately know if the page is outdated.
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No filter bubble
DuckDuckGo does not filter your search’s with the data that they have. You get to see everything the Internet has to offer in a safe, private way.
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Owner would compromise his service/customer privacy
In a question to Weinberg, “if you were served an NSL or were commanded to compromise your service/customer privacy in any way, would you and could you just pull the plug like Lavabit did or would you run into opposition from shareholders/investors that would prevent you from doing so?” Gabriel Weinberg said: “No one is preventing me from doing that.”
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Infinite scroll of search results
DuckDuckGo results page is an infinite scrolling page, so you don't need to be clicking through pages.
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Form over function (overall search experience is poor)
It's nice to adjust the settings and all but after a couple of days you will want to go back to a more functional search engine. Sure DDG looks shiny and !bangs are great but many wouldn't consider it as a viable alternative. Better results for search queries is more important than fancy looking CSS.
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Good for Linux users
DuckDuckGo has an API with some websites. With the help of this API, if you search for a fix of a problem in Linux, you can easily find an answer to the problem. For example, if you search for "How to update linux", you will get a message like this: How to install updates via command line Try this: sudo apt-get update # Fetches the list of available updates sudo apt-get upgrade # Strictly upgrades the current packages sudo apt-get dist-upgrade # Installs updates (new ones) --SirCharlo
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Hosted on Amazon servers (EC2)
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Allows searching from specific sites using bangs
Bangs are commands that allow searching via a different website's local search engine, using keywords or abbreviations with an exclamation mark (!). For example searching "world war ii !wiki" will automatically redirect to Wikipedia.org and show results for the query "world war ii" there, instead of DuckDuckGo, using Wikipedia's search engine. The more common sites have shortened alternatives for these commands. Such as !g for Google, !i for images and !yt Youtube. The whole list of bangs can be found by typing "!bang" in DuckDuckGo.
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DuckDuckGo has many 'Owners'
DuckDuckGo is owned by Gabriel Weinberg who is is the founder, current CEO and controlling shareholder. Investors/shareholders include Union Square Ventures and several others. DuckDuckGo generates it’s income from advertising (Bing Ads) and collects affiliate revenue (Amazon, eBay).
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Has a .onion site
Only accessible from Tor.
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Shows too few images
When searching for images only, it shows too few of them and only a handful are related to the search terms.
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Has a wide spectrum of instant answers
For select queries DDG pops up a box that supplies the exact answer. For example, searching "stopwatch" will pop up a stopwatch, asking for "words like..." will show a list of related words, typing "password" will generate a password, etc.
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Doesn't do personalized searches
Since they don't track you the results are not tailored to your interests.
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Many customization options for appearance
DDG allows customizing almost any aspect of the search engine's appearance including fonts, page width, alignment, header behavior, site icons, etc and has a selection of premade themes available as well.
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Search using language other than English is not so great
Korean would never use it.
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Can disable advertisements
The search engine allows freely disabling ads.
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Still not better than Google, technically
Results are quite often not as good. They just lack resources to do it, for now.
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Based in US, so they cannot guarantee there is no backdoor
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DuckDuckGo and Yahoo partnership
See here and here.
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Referrers
A referrer is an HTTP header field that identifies the address of the webpage (i.e. the URI or IRI) that linked to the resource being requested. By checking the referrer, the new webpage can see where the request originated.” Basically it tells a website where you came from. DDG does give this out.
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DuckDuckGo has no 3rd party certifications
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Bangs do not protect user privacy and can be misleading
Using these bangs will instantly connect you to the service you requested. For example typing “!g white cat with green eyes” and hitting return, drops you off on the Google website to display your results (thus logging your IP, search term and browser info immediately). It does not get you Google results inside DuckDuckGo. It is reasonable for DDG users to assume and expect a private search engine warns if there is a risk to that privacy being lost, like it does with Youtube videos but in the case of Bangs this does not happen.
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Bing = DuckDuckGo
It uses Bing for the query.
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Cloud saving still needs work
Cloud save and the ability to pull up your settings on any device is a nice idea but the implementation needs work.
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Needs a clearer vision of the future
What's duck's goal or quest?
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Is only for ignorants
Unsecure, no-privacy and full of junks and bloats...
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It has its own index
It's not a metasearch engine.
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Search results are very limited in scope
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Entities search
It shows up entities and descriptions from Wikipedia.
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It has news
It has a very cool news section.
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Anonymous data collected (Opt in only)
Brave Search collects some anonymous data (can be opted out) such as the number of searches made per day, and the browser version and OS version used during query. But Brave Search does NOT record or collect the Search Query itself, not even anonymously, making Brave Search more privacy-respecting than Duckduckgo. Find out more here.
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Relevant results (better than Duckduckgo)
Search results in Brave are much more relevant than Duckduckgo. Impressive search engine!
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Personal data is being sold to finance their own business
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Has its own indexing engine
Independent search. Does not depend on other search engines for results, unlike Duckduckgo, which depends on Bing.
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Great privacy policy
Everything is detailed here.
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Does not track geo-location
Doesn't use localization API or Fingerprinting for geo-location. Is not even interested to localize by ISP IPs.
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