DuckDuckGo’s quest to prove online privacy is possible
Unverifiable privacy claims aside, I quite like that DDG is suitable for most (80%+) things I need to look up. Having !bangs to jump to wiki (or google) has been great too. That said, it is not without faults, even functionally.- Local search is naturally very poor, to the point that 100% of my local search traffic is still on Google.- Image search is nothing to write home about.- I'm not pleased that looking up something contentious/political more often than not brings up reactionary or false content. It's either bad news sources or low quality blogs.The last one might not be a problem to people whose opinions the results align with better but it is what it is. It's hard to say whether this is what the web would be without Google "censorship"/filter bubble stuff, or whether these are just the kinds of content the DDG (bing + other sources) algorithms have decided to rank ahead of them.Either way, it is an invaluable resource and an important one to have. Search is already extremely concentrated towards Google but ideally there should always be usable alternatives.