Got the same result on the app and in the browser, I checked the linked Wikipedia article and it doesn't contain that text, nor could I find any indication of previous edits that have contained that text.
I'm just curious if this happened because of users manipulating the Wikipedia content, the search results, or what.
Hi! I’m sure this is a long shot but my little cousin was playing with my iPhone and hit the ignite button in my DuckDuckGo mobile app and I lost over 90 tabs. Some of them were fun but a lot of them are research for a paper I’m writing. Is there anyway to get them back? Or enable a browser to prevent this from happening in the future? Like I’m distraught
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This was very unhelpful. I know this is insane and you can’t imagine using your phone for something this important, but my laptop was recently stolen and I don’t have the money to just replace it. I’m literally doing my best here. I’d been meaning to bookmark them but I just kept forgetting. I cried for two hours before someone suggested Reddit. You could’ve said nothing or sorry I don’t know how to help.
Do you use DuckDuckGo duck Ai instead of other Ai like ChatGPT and Gemini? is Duck.ai really private?
zoomed in as much as I could for the screenshot
I, two days ago, finally called it quits on Bing and moved to DuckDuckGo.
I guess this is a feature request. The support article "How To Sort DuckDuckGo Search Results by Date" describes an option that doesn't appear to be there for image results: Filtering by a custom date range. For image results, there is only the option to view past day, week, or month. I see that DuckDuckGo has an option to filter out known AI-generated imagery, which is what I'm actually trying to do, but I'd really like to just say "only show me images dated prior to 2023" or whatever as another layer of filtering.
A pretty convoluted example: This search was done from a Polish IP, for a phrase that is common across the nordic languages (meaning "watch solar eclipse"). DDG gives me a swedish weather forecast and a Danish site as the top hit. My search setting is set to Norway, but there was not a single norwegian page in the top 10 results (they were mostly danish with a couple of swedish ones thrown in).
What is that country setting supposed to do?
Other searches gives me polish pages (because of my IP). I wish that setting would allow me to get norwegian results.
does duckduckgo have an incognito mode?
Hi, I've been using Duck Duck Go for a while, but as of late I've noticed that most image results are AI generated. I have the hide AI images setting on, but that doesn't seem to be helping. It's not just a handful of images--for every 10 images, 9 look AI generated. I love DDG and don't plan to switch, but it's kind of annoying and I wanted to find out whether others are facing this issue too. Thanks in advance!
Man if they can just get away with over 1000 trackers per user on widely-used browsers like Chrome what hope do we have
I just found out about the DuckDuckGo Easter Egg cons and really love them.
I also have safesearch on.
Did anyone else get an email with a link to a free tshirt if you were one of the first to buy the new VPN/data removal service? Anyway it came today
Edit oh if you qualify check your a spam folder idk why mine went to spam on my gmail
Does DDG pad its search results with fake hits when they can’t find responsive answers? I searched for a question about fake currency and got the homepage of PCworld as a search result, and I cannot for the life of me understand why.
I was curious whether the government offers a program reimbursing people if they turn in a fake bills. Like, if you get a fake $20 as change from a store, can you turn in (to remove it from circulation) and get a new $20? Or are you just out the $20 if you turn it in? I doubted that any government exchange program exists, but figured I’d search to confirm.
I searched this exact text: “does the government offer an exchange for forged money to remove it from circulation.”
None of the search results answered the question. Disappointing. And worse, one of the top search results is just “www.pcworld.com”. That’s it, just PCworld’s homepage. Screenshot attached. How that relates to currency exchanges for forged bills, I have no idea.
Critically, when I clicked the PCworld result, it had none of the search terms— I did individual ctrl-f searches for “government”, “exchange”, “forged”, “money”, “remove”, and “circulation” and literally not one of those terms was on the PCworld page served up by DDG. So how did PCworld’s home page get into the results?
I understand that DDG’s search engine repackages the web index from Microsoft’s Bing, rather than relying on a search index created by DDG. See here: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources. But I thought DDG claimed to have improved Bing’s results by (1) supplementing it with their own crawler, DuckDuckBot, and (2) by refining the ranking of results from Bing to be more accurately ranked. (Same source).
Is there any reasonable explanation for including PCworld as a responsive hit here? Or is it just included to pad search results?
Relatedly, did DDG add PCworld as a hit? Or did PCworld come from Bing, and DDG’s “re-ranking” algorithm kept it because it thought PCworld was actually a responsive result?
I’m genuinely curious if there’s any explanation (other than fraudulently padding search results) for why DDG returned PCworld’s homepage as a result for a search about fraudulent currency exchanges. I can’t think of one.
Edit: DDG commented and said that DDG’s search results are generally unreliable after the first page of results, because that’s “the unfortunate nature of the beast”—according to DDG, page 2+ results are “a digital wild west” that will inevitably include random, unrelated results. (The PCworld result was page 2, number 3).
When asked if DDG could explain why PCworld’s homepage appeared despite having 0 of the search terms, the DDG rep said “unfortunately I can’t.”
In other words, even DDG doesn’t know why its search engine throws out random results. I knew DDG’s search engine wasn’t great, but a senior, official rep confirming their engine is essentially a crapshoot is genuinely upsetting.
The DDG rep isn’t some rando either — he introduced himself as John Bourscheid, a senior member of DDG’s digital marketing team and a self-described search engine expert (he says his “bread and butter” work is on search results).
I think I’m done with DDG’s search engine.
I have been using duckduckgo for like 1 week and its extremely slow. My internet is usually slow, yeah but now with duckduckgo its even slower. It takes 5-10 seconds to load a page every single time. I dont like google and tyr to avoid using it as possible but speed is an important factor here. Am I the only one who experiencing this?
My main question: is it safe/advisable to use a masked email address for critical accounts like a password manager, or should that always be tied to your real email?
J Specifically curious about DuckDuckGo's Email Protection, anyone using it long-term? How reliable has it been? Any horror stories about losing access or delayed emails?
The concern I keep coming back to is what if the masking service goes down! or What if DDG stop this feature...
For context I use duck duck go as a search engine on firefox. I just looked up “train subway” and it brought up info on subway stations in my city. I have location info off to my knowledge. Does anyone know why this happened?
Hi! I'm noticing that search results only ever push articles from 2025-2026, which is getting increasingly annoying considering every single website is cheaply AI generated. How can I date my searches prior to 2023? Thank you :)
