You don’t even have to find the menus in your browser preferences – DuckDuckGo opens them for you. The app will walk you through how to do that. When you download the app for Mac, you have to enable the features within your browser. It’s super easy – on Safari, you just click the magnifying glass in the search bar and then choose DuckDuckGo from the drop-down. This completely took the guesswork out of how to find and download the right version for my computer.Īfter clicking the button to add it, I got a pop-up with the steps to set DuckDuckGo as my default search engine. Since I was using the Safari browser, I had customized “Add DuckDuckGo to Safari” buttons on pretty much every page of their website (and then tailored for Chrome (opens in new tab) when I checked out the site using that browser (opens in new tab)). On Twitter, Facebook, Google News, and Instagram.You can set DuckDuckGo as your default search engine in most browsers including Safari and Google Chrome (Image credit: Apple) In use DuckDuckGo offers one page search result with infinite scroll that implies till the time a user scrolls down more search results will keep on appearing while in Google the user has to switch to the next page after the result on a page ends.įollow HT Tech for the latest tech news and reviews, also keep up with us There is a feature in DuckDuckGo called the Smarter Encryption, which basically means that more of user's browsing will use encrypted connections (HTTPS), shielding it from any potential hacker or data breacher.ĥ. Google on the other hand by default saves a user's search history.Ĥ. DuckDuckGo search is anonymous, as a result each time the one uses it the search history is clear, leaving no trace of information. Unlike Google, DuckDuckGo forces sites use an encrypted connection wherever available, which again protects the user from data breach.ģ. In DuckDuckGo, the user is not tracked nor is the IP address tracked, as a result nobody can take advantage of the search history.Ģ.

Google uses information shared by websites and apps in order to deliver personalised content and ads for users, so when a user goes to a website that uses Google's advertising service AdSense, analytics tools automatically send information such as URL, user's IP address to Google.

Here's a look at the five privacy features that DuckDuckGo has and Google does not:ġ. Recently, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had said he has switched to DuckDuckGo, even though the brand has a mere 0.28% market share in the search engine market, while Google has a massive 81.5% share, stated the Newsmarket report as of September 2019.

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