The founder of DuckDuckGo shares the secrets behind how he built a search engine that puts a premium on privacy.

You can turn it off/on any time. The tool relies on open-source blocklists so it isn't foolproof. DuckDuckGo is known for its privacy- and user-first credo, but its latest feature is the first of its ...

After all these years, DuckDuckGo doesn't need an introduction. It's a more private internet search tool than Google Search, and it's my default search engine on the iPhone and most of my desktop ...

When Gabriel Weinberg, founder of the privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo, first started working on the concept for it almost a decade ago now, he didn’t set out at first to build a company ...

DuckDuckGo is a tiny search engine company with a straightforward value proposition: Unlike Google, Bing and Yahoo Search, it doesn’t track your searches or mine your data for advertising or other ...

Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him reading and drinking coffee or watching a ...

Earlier this week, DuckDuckGo branched out from its private browser and search engine with a new service called Email Protection. The service, which is currently invite-only, gives users a unique duck ...

I don’t feel like I’m sacrificing anything by using DuckDuckGo. The search results are great, the user experience is top-notch, and features like Bangs and Instant Answers have become indispensable to ...

Stay incognito when browsing, searching, or watching YouTube videos. Stay incognito when browsing, searching, or watching YouTube videos. is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, ...

Sometime in late 2019, I became increasingly more concerned with personal privacy. I’ve never been the type of person to lean into sharing details with companies when I didn’t need to, but I became ...

Privacy-oriented search engine DuckDuckGo says it will “protect” against tracking by web pages with Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages framework (or AMP) enabled ...