DuckDuckGo.com

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Duck Duck Go

Duck Duck Go is a new search engine which claims to provide users with better results and less garbage as compared to its competitors. The unique and catchy name along with innovative solutions means that if Duck Duck Go can deliver on promises this might just turn out to be the future of search engines.

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The following important characteristics make Duck Duck Go a winner:

  • Zero-click information that is summaries & related topics incorporated in the search results.
  • Ambiguous keyword detection. Click here to see what happens when you search for "apple"
  • Official sites labeled & on top.
  • Simpler, less-cluttered links.
Improvements Over Other Search Engines
  • The biggest advantage of using Duck Duck Go is that it omits parked/spam domains and provides suggestions when blocking them.
  • Includes category pages for example Communication disorders.
  • Includes keyboard shortcuts:
    • ↑ ↓,
    • Enter (go)
    • j k (arrow alts.)
    • / (search box).
Firefox Tool Bar
  • Automatically detects and displays:
    • Phone Numbers
    • Tracking Numbers
    • Car Registration numbers
    • Zip Codes
    • Book (ISBN)
    • Product codes
    • Street addresses
    • IP addresses.

Extensions and Apps

FireFox Extension
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Firefox now has a DuckDuckGo.com extension. This extension improves the quality of your search results by making use of Duck Duck go's search engine. Duck Duck Go gets rid of useless pages, parked and spam pages from search results.

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The extensions thus saves you from 42 Million useless Web sites. Here useless Web sites are defined as sites with nothing but ads. If you're like most people, you've been to many of them from either search results in other search engines or by slightly mistyping Web addresses, e.g. yotube.com or facebok.com.

Duck Duck go has partnered with a firm, Ive Got a Fang on a project. The project identifies parked/spam domains. Thus these blocked domains have also been removed from Duck Duck Go's search results.

iPhone App

Duck Duck Go has brought the Duck search to the iPhone. This search app is optimized for the iPhone and is developed in collaboration with CHS systems.

Testimonial

DuckDuckGo is the first search engine I've used post-Google that actually could replace Google for me.From: raygrieselhuber on Twitter

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Additional Information

Social Media

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For API

Press Coverage

Contact

Click on the relevant contact link:

Feedback Form

For Bloggers

Contact Gabriel Weinberg (Founder and CEO)

Email:,

Phone:(617) 974-2456.

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Visit gabrielweinberg.com

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