Another way to switch is to head to on Chrome, hover over and right-click the URL in the address bar, and choose 'Manage search engines. ' Next to " Search engine used in the address bar," click the dropdown menu and pick 'DuckDuckGo ' from the list. ' Click the 'Menu ' icon (three horizontal lines) on the top-left corner of the page to expand it and choose 'Search engine. Users who prefer using Google Chrome can set their default search engine from Google to DuckDuckGo by launching the web browser and clicking 'More ' (three-dot icon) located at the top-right corner of the screen and hitting 'Settings. “Having will make it easier for people to use DuckDuckGo.Related: Chrome & Edge Users Prepare For A Major Copy & Paste UpgradeĭuckDuckGo reportedly experienced an uptick in search volume this year, which means a higher number of users are making the search engine switch. “We’re pleased Google has chosen to transfer ownership of to DuckDuckGo,” said Weinberg at the time.
Last December, DuckDuckGo acquired the domain from Google, which now redirects to the search engine. “That means there was an affirmative decision somewhere along the line to redirect that particular domain to their search product.”
“Google owns lots of domains that don’t point anywhere, or not to their main search page,” said DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg in a 2010 post on the company’s support forum. In a series of tweets in 2018, DuckDuckGo accused Google of abusing its power to hinder the search engine’s proliferation on the Chrome and Android platforms - namely by making it impossible to change the default search provider in Android’s search widget, which uses Google searches.Īnd after acquiring the domain through the 2010 purchase of video technology company On2 (formerly The Duck Corporation), Google redirected the URL to its own search page.
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