NOT ON THE LIST IN 2025
DuckDuckGo is a search engine that doesn’t track you.
Website: duckduckgo.com
Rankings in the previous surveys
| 2024: – | 2023: – | 2022: 35 | 2021: 82 | 2020: 137 | 2019: 163 | 2018: 159 | 2017: – | 2016: – |
| 2015: – | 2014: – | 2013: – | 2012: – | 2011: – | 2010: – | 2009: – | 2008: – | 2007: – |
Comments on DuckDuckGo
“Clean searching” (2022)
“When you’re looking for different thing and you don’t want to be track down (like flights, hotels and so on), this browser is the best solution.” Event Coordinator, Denmark, 2022
“Duck has become my preferred search engine, because it’s claim to not track is comforting to me. I don’t use their browser, but I find their hits to be pretty spot-on.” Clark Quinn, USA, 2022
“Great search engine that isn’t Google” Peter Forrest, Senior Learning Consultant, UK, 2022
“I’ve switched to use this as my search engine, as it’s less-tracking, and provides good results.” Clark Quinn, Author and Consultant, USA, 2021
“I like the privacy that DDG guarantees” E-Learning Developer, Netherlands, 2021
“Works as well as Google, but without the privacy problems” Director L&D, Netherlands, 2021
“Personal data security, tracking – I’m getting so sick of my data and anything I say/do/write being accessible, tracked, and then acted upon (e.g., targeted ads)” Karen Caldwell, education developer, organizational developer, assistant professor, USA, 2020
“Nice platform for searching online without being hunted by Google analytics.” Johan Terherne, elearning developer, Belgium/Netherlands, 2020
