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February 15, 2024

How to use DuckDuckGo: Everything you need to know

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If privacy is what you’re after and you want to get away from using Google, DuckDuckGo is a great alternative. The service focuses on putting privacy first, from internet browsing to email forwarding. However, the results aren’t as relevant or robust, so you may not always find exactly what you’re looking for.

Thousands of privacy-conscious users have already made the switch from messaging platforms like WhatsApp to more secure-seeming options such as Signal and Telegram.

At the same time, many people may be opting to use DuckDuckGo instead of Google or Bing for web searches, likely because the lesser-known search engine does not collect user data or track what you search.

DuckDuckGo has seen more than 4 million users install its apps and browser extensions, making it their default search engine, and you can too.

Here’s how to switch to — and use — DuckDuckGo.

Bad title

The requested page title is invalid. It may be empty, contain unsupported characters, or include a non-local or incorrectly linked interwiki prefix. You may be able to locate the desired page by searching for its name (with the interwiki prefix, if any) in the search box.

Possible causes are:

• an attempt to load a URL such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/| (the | character is unsupported);
• an attempt to load a URL pointing to a «non-local» interwiki page (usually those not run by the Wikimedia Foundation). For example, the URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/meatball:WikiPedia will give this error, because the «meatball:» interwiki prefix is not marked as local in the interwiki table. Certain interwiki prefixes are marked as local in the table. For example, the URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/meta:Main_Page can be used to load meta:Main_Page. All interlanguage prefixes are marked as local, and thus URLs such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fr:Accueil will work as expected. However, non-local interwiki pages can still be accessed by interwiki linking or by entering them in the search box. For example [[meatball:WikiPedia]] can be used on a page, like this: meatball:WikiPedia.

Retrieved from «https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Badtitle»

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How to use DuckDuckGo

You can open the DuckDuckGo webpage in any web browser in the same way you would visit Google or any other search engine site.

DuckDuckGo is a search engine that offers private online searches without the kind tracking or user profiling that Google performs. Dave Johnson/Business Insider

If you prefer, you can also set DuckDuckGo as your default search engine or add it as an extension in your browser; to see how to do that in the Chrome browser, read our article on adding DuckDuckGo to Chrome.

DuckDuckGo is also available as a mobile app. You can install the DuckDuckGo app for iOS or DuckDuckGo for Android to perform private searches on your phone.

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