Most of the crawling done by DDG automated web spiders, called DuckDuckBots, is 'conducted solely to keep spam out of the search results,' Weinberg told TechnologyReview. However, when you Duck it, (verb tense like Google it or Bing it) the search results are quality, not spammy pseudo-content, and there are no ads above the results.

Trending news, buzz words and the top 1,000 sites are often targeted. Your search history is safe with us because it cannot be tied to you in any way.'Īccording to security software firm Websense, cybercriminals are poisoning search results so that the route to malware can be as short as two clicks away. Since DDG logs no personal information about you, the 'decisions of whether and how to comply with law enforcement requests, whether and how to anonymize data, and how to best protect your information from hackers are out of our hands. If a search engine logs your history, then it could possibly be released to the public or handed over to law enforcement. With the additional account information, they are associated directly with you.' You can find out a great deal about a person from their search history. 'With only the timestamp and computer information, your searches can often be traced directly to you. Gabriel Weinberg, the man who started DDG, wants you to understand why you should care about stored search history. Wouldn't it be nice to use a quality search engine that takes privacy seriously by default? DuckDuckGo (DDG) uses no browser cookies, does not save your search in a personally identifiable way, and does not send your search terms to the sites you click on. Every time you run a search on Google or Bing, there is search leakage your search terms and personally identifiable information like your IP address and unique User Agent are stored by the search engines and then passed to the sites you click on after searching. We all know that Bing and Google search engines automatically track us, since they have a vested interest in delivering ads.

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