Non-tracking search engine, DuckDuckGo, is now a little easier to find online after the company acquired the premium generic domain name duck.com — thereby shaving a few letters off its usual URL.

While not Google’s biggest search competitor by far, many who are leery about Google scooping up so much information about our web activity have transitioned to using the privacy-focused search engine ...

Current and prospective users of DuckDuckGo now have another way to access the famous non-tracking search engine. It was confirmed on Monday, December 10, to NamePros that DuckDuckGo had acquired a ...

Google has given up ownership of the domain Duck.com and transferred it to rival search engine DuckDuckGo. Ownership of the Duck.com domain has been a point of ...

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From one search engine to another, visiting duck.com will now take you directly to the privacy-focused search engine rather than Google's homepage. We don't know how much this cost DuckDuckGo, if it ...

If you dig into the numbers, however, it’s evident DuckDuckGo’s selling point is losing its appeal. DuckDuckGo’s average daily search volume grew 17% from January 2021 to January 2022. That’s the ...

DuckDuckGo has opened its 'Email Protection' service to anyone wishing to get their own ‘@duck.com' email address. The free service was launched as a closed beta in July 2021, and while it's still in ...

DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused “search engine that doesn’t track you,” saw its usage skyrocket in the wake of Edward Snowden’s NSA revelations, but that privacy came at a price: While Google and Bing ...

Google (GOOG) might utterly dominate the search engine business (it conducts nearly 7 out of every 10 searches), but privacy advocates have long preferred a relatively little-known site called ...

The new feature, still in beta, adheres to DuckDuckGo’s privacy-first approach to AI and to search in general. Here are the ...

In a nutshell: DuckDuckGo's Email Protection is primarily focused on blocking email trackers and shielding your email address from companies. Users can create a personal @duck.com email address, and ...