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I do not consider myself a tinfoil-hat-wearing privacy nut, but personal tracking on the web is out of hand. At this point, it is my default search engine everywhere for some pretty good privacy-related reasons. It’s been several years since I last wrote about DuckDuckGo and how I use it as my primary search engine. If you would like to switch to an Internet search engine that’s not quite so creepy, DuckDuckGo is the answer, and a few bangs in your pocket make the transition so much easier. Here are a few that I use all the time:Īccording to the DuckDuckGo website, there are currently 13,505 bangs. For instance, “!g MacSparky” in the DuckDuckGo search bar searches MacSparky through the Google search engine, anonymized. Bangs are just a series of shortcuts that DuckDuckGo added to its search bar, making it easy for you to search on specific domains. “Then just bang Google,” I responded, and she looked at me like I just got off a spaceship.Ī lot of people are not familiar with the concept of DuckDuckGo bangs. Recently I was talking to a friend about this, and she explained that while she likes the idea of DuckDuckGo, she still thinks she would occasionally need Google. However, you'll get more with Google search results, such as recent tweets, People Also Ask and videos, than you'll get with DuckDuckGo.I have been using DuckDuckGo for several years now. As with Google, you can narrow your search to images, videos, news, maps and shopping.ĭuckDuckGo's results pages look fairly similar to Google's, with knowledge panels, news carousels and related searches. Type your query into the search bar and get your results. How to use DuckDuckGoĭuckDuckGo isn't all that different from any other search engine. If you prefer to use DuckDuckGo as your default search engine within Safari, Firefox, or Brave, follow the steps (opens in new tab) on DuckDuckGo's help pages. Adding DuckDuckGo on mobileĭuckDuckGo has browsing apps for both iOS (opens in new tab) and Android (opens in new tab). You can also get the Privacy Essentials add-on (opens in new tab). Open the dropdown menu next to Search Engine Used in the Address Bar and select DuckDuckGo. Scroll all the way down the page and, under the Services heading, click Address Bar and Search. (Image credit: Microsoft/Screenshot by Tom's Guide) The setting to make DuckDuckGo the default search engine in Microsoft Edge.