Google is the 2,000-pound gorilla among the search engines out there.

It should come as no surprise that Google, Facebook, Amazon, and other big tech companies are amassing a lot of data with each online search and purchase. Ever notice how if you search for some product, it suddenly appears in ads and banners in multiple applications?

DuckDuckGo is a search engine which purports not to collect and store personal information about its users.

Our privacy policy is simple: we don’t collect or share any of your personal information. Ever.

– from DuckDuckGo’s homepage

I’ve been aware of DuckDuckGo for some time, but reading this piece from DuckDuckGo’s CEO, Gabriel Weinberg has convinced me to try using the DuckDuckGo search engine instead of my default Google search.

I’ll report back with my results and observations after I’ve given DuckDuckGo a fair trial.

Here are some reviews of DuckDuckGo vs. Google:

DuckDuckGo vs. Google: An In-Depth Search Engine Comparison – SearchEngineJournal, April, 2019
DuckDuckGo Vs. Google: What You Need to Know – Hackernoon, February, 2019

DuckDuckGo vs. Google – Is one really better than the other? – Lifewire, October, 2019

Do you use DuckDuckGo or anything other than Google? Would you consider scrapping Google as your default search engine? Send me your comments!