OK, you may be thinking 'That's a load of paranoia', fair enough but your search bubble isn't that is real.įrom the time you've started using Google a record is kept of what you look up. The adverts are purely based on the text you have entered into the search box. Of course DuckDuckGo does include advertising, most search engines can't survive without it, however it keeps no record of your searches.

However the bang commands listed above don't even make up the tip of the iceberg, a full list of the bang commands can be found here.ĭuckDuckGo also has a policy of not storing information, unlike Google, and using it for advertising. The bang commands include:įor example to search Amazon for a Drupal 7 book you can enter !a drupal 7 into the search box. However upon a bit more digging I discovered that DuckDuckGo uses a facility called Bang commands, some of the most popular these can be accessed by clicking on the arrow beside the search box, most need to be entered directly into the search field. Something that we have become accustomed to with the Google search engine. One of the first things I noticed was the lack of a search for news, images or videos.

To further enhance this theory that it's influenced by Google's design: the badge is modified regularly to correspond with the relevant date (sounding similar). The front page has been heavily influenced by the classic Google homepage, simply a white background with the name and logo above it. This got me thinking: have we come to rely on Google so much that we can't even use the internet on a daily basis without it? After a browse around for various search engines I discovered DuckDuckGo. Sadly they all reported back on a terrible week being forced to use Bing, Microsoft's search engine.

In season two of Tuxradar podcast the group challenged themselves to use an alternative search engine to Google for a week.

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