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Do you like privacy? Do you shun surveillance and eschew spam? Do you like simplicity? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you'll love DuckDuckGo....

If this sounds like something you don't want to be a part of, start searching on DuckDuckGo. Since DuckDuckGo uses some 50 sources—including Bing, Yahoo! and Wolfram Alpha—for its search queries, you'll get results that look similar to what Google returns. DuckDuckGo even improves on traditional search engines in some ways; it combs through results, pulling out irrelevant links and spam and content farm fodder so that its returns are good and clean. Meanwhile, an anonymous search option uses Tor to route your query through a series of encrypted relays. You can even do voice search with a new-ish Google Chrome extension....

They won't track you and it makes their searches better.Named after the playground game duck duck goose, the site is not just banking on the support of people paranoid about GCHQ and the NSA.

Its founder, Gabriel Weinberg, argues that privacy makes the web search better, not worse. Since it doesn't store your previous searches, it does not and cannot present personalized search results. That frees users from the filter bubble – the fear that, as search results are increasingly personalized, they are less likely to be presented with information that challenges their existing ideas....