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DuckDuckGo is an internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results. Questions about using DuckDuckGo may be more suited to webapps.stackexchange.com.

DuckDuckGo is an internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results.

Questions about DuckDuckGo may be more suited to the following Stack Exchange site:
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Toggle between search engines in Google Chrome

How can I easily toggle between DuckDuckGo and Google in the omnibox? Is there a way to achieve it? Any plugins, shortcuts or so? The problem narrows down to changing the default search engine of Google Chrome using a shortcut. The point is that…
Mateusz Piotrowski
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Sometimes no focus on address bar (chrome://new-tab-page-third-party/)

When opening a new tab in Google Chrome, the focus will sometimes (and only sometimes) not be on the address bar, which instead contains the text chrome://new-tab-page-third-party/: When this happens, the DuckDuckGo logo (I use their new tab page)…
Drubbels
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How to view search results from both Google and DuckDuckGo in one step?

I am trying to use DuckDuckGo more and more in my daily work as a replacement for Google. Though, from time to time I find that Google returns more relevant results for my queries. So, I would be happy to get results from DuckDuckGo, and if there…
Sergei Basharov
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How can ensure that DuckDuckGo "site:" keyword returns the same results as Googles "site:" keyword?

Today, 2023-04-01, I searched using Google via these search terms: site:geekhack.org "fav mouse" And it returned a search result as I expected it to: I tried that using DuckDuckGo search but got this: Is my syntax incorrect? How can I ensure that…
bgoodr
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Get search results in a different language locale

Using Google Chrome with the search term DAO tutorial C#. Have tested both Google Search and DuckDuckGo. In both cases one of the top results is Creating a Data Access Layer (C#) which contains the locale code en-us. The result is an indecipherable…
AlainD
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Will Google collect my data given I use Google Chrome with DuckDuckGo?

I have recently change my default search engine to DuckDuckGo. But I still use the Google Chrome as my browser. Will Google still collect my data?
user
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Disable Firefox 50 search suggestions in location bar

I'm on a completely fresh install of Firefox 50.1.0 on Ubuntu, and I keep getting unwanted search suggestions in the location bar: I have not visited the URLs in this list, i.e., these are not items from my history. This is despite having turned…
Isabelle Newbie
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ddgr not showing relevant results

the number of search results is always limited to 10. even if I pass argument as 5,ddgr shows 10 results. would you please be kind enough to pass some examples of search results with number of results per page.? Also let me know how to get the next…
Anirban
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Shortcut key for adding adding http://www..com in DuckDuckGo

In Chrome & Edge when typing a website and pressing Control+Enter, http://www..com is automatically added. In DuckDuckGo I'm seeing this same behavior. Is there a key combination for this in DuckDuckGo?
Rich
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DuckDuckGo not responding while OpenDNS is set

I was using OpenDNS (Primary 208.67.222.222 and secondary 208.67.220.220) on my Mac. And it is not loading DuckDuckGo site on browser. But when I unset the DNS, DuckDuckGo is accessible now. And I don't understand why?
Pradeep Nag
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DuckDuckGo Not Loading on Firefox

So I came across {{template.head}} somewhere and I wanted to search up what it was but right after I tried to search it, I was stuck on a newtab firefox page, unable to access the DuckDuckGo.com website or search anything. So basically I cannot…
someone
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DuckDuckGo Keyboard Shortcuts

I've recently installed Vimperator and it is a great thing leading me to remove the mouse and experience mouse-less browsing. I've also replaced Google by DuckDuckGo on Firefox so now I rely on its results to find things. Vimperator's Follow hint…
user373230
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What are the differences between google.com, encrypted.google.com, and duckduckgo.com?

I've used Google for a long time. However, it collects too much information and abuses your privacy. So I've started to use DuckDuckGo, which seems to be pretty anonymous, private, and reliable. However, I found encrypted.google.com. I have no idea…
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Duck and Go disturbing image output

Look it does advertise itself as not tracking user's historical selections, and so this is a rational paranoid feeling to think that it knows my sexual preference. Well in terms of gender anyway. Other explanations?
Adam Ledger
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