It's occurred to me that the reason #DuckDuckGo is such an unshakable trend is #DDG marketers are fully exploiting the concept of #socialProof. https://ignitevisibility.com/social-proof/ They have mastered this approach to manipulate people. Everything they do is to leverage social proof. #showerThoughts
@resist1984 Thanks for reminding me of the age old marketing tactic spiffed up in the digital age. DDG is still better than Google even though it gets results from Google. I only recommend DDG to very few because of its ease of use. I recommend Searx to everybody who can take more than a minute and a few more steps to improve their digital hygiene.
@krock AFAIK, DDG only gets images (!image) from Google, but normal searches are sourced from #Microsoft Bing. And because MS is also the hosting provider for DDG, MS sees both the IP address and the query of every user. If you want Google results without google contact, Startpage is the common tool for that.
@resist1984
My flawed memory thought it came from G, but that might have been years ago and has changed to Bing as you say. "He who controls the past, controls the future." So MS is to gain with DDG. Owning Lockedin and Github and escaping current antitrust scrutiny puts them in a powerful position.