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DuckDuckGo Adds Quick Answers to Search Results

DuckDuckGo has been spotted serving quick answers in search results, which are largely similar to Google’s featured snippets.
Ross Hudgens shared a screenshot on Twitter which shows a quick answer being served on the right-hand side of desktop search results (also works on mobile).
DuckDuckGo recently added quick answers. This is a better experience for users, and kudos to them for putting the website URL at the top unlike Google.
They have one ad, prioritize credit to the publisher, and their product is getting better. We’re rooting for you DDG! pic.twitter.com/vcLVukjrjr
— Ross Hudgens (@RossHudgens) January 25, 2020
Results may vary for each user. For example, I can replicate this quick answer, but it shows up immediately below the search bar. I did some further testing to learn more about this addition to DuckDuckGo’s search results and here’s what I found.
Quick answers come from WikiHow only
DuckDuckGo’s quick answers now show up fairly regularly for “how to” searches, but the information all comes from a single source. WikiHow must have some kind of arrangement with DuckDuckGo to serve these snippets exclusively. Information in Google’s quick answers, on the other hand, can be pulled from any website.
DuckDuckGo’s quick answers show up more often than Google’s
Based on the few dozen “how to” searches I conducted, I discovered that DuckDuckGo serves quick answers more often than Google. Here’s what happens when you take the same “how to tie a tie” query, as shown above, and search for it in Google.
Of course, this could vary for each user as well, but I found Google would more often serve instructional YouTube videos than step-by-step quick answers.
Related: DuckDuckGo vs. Google: An In-Depth Search Engine Comparison
DuckDuckGo’s quick answers are fully expandable
When a quick answer is served in DuckDuckGo’s search results it can be expanded to reveal the content in full. Here’s an example of a lengthy step-by-step quick answer:
Google receives a lot of criticism for serving a generous portion of content in featured snippets, but it doesn’t serve entire articles. Google searchers still have to visit a publisher’s site to read an article in full.
All in all, this is a useful addition to DuckDuckGo’s search results and shows it’s committed to continually improving its product.
Related: DuckDuckGo SEO: What You Should Know
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Why DuckDuckGo want Masses to Sap Chrome

The security of web surfers is a major issue, and it’s a legitimate one. Your personal information may be at risk because of a breach of privacy. As a result, it’s critical that large internet businesses like Google preserve your anonymity when you utilize their services. However, are the tech giant’s privacy pledges really real? DuckDuckGo, on the other hand, isn’t convinced. With its Threads and FLEDGE services, the private browser has accused the former of violating its customers’ privacy rights. DuckDuckGo is fighting Google over this, but why is that? Let see!
DuckDuckGo Has Accused Google of Reneging on Its Promise to Protect Users’ Privacy
NEW: DuckDuckGo’s Chrome extension now blocks Google’s new tracking method “Topics” and new ad re-targeting method FLEDGE.
Google says they’re better for privacy, but the simple fact is tracking is tracking, no matter what you call it.https://t.co/r9GFLdXmTT
— DuckDuckGo (@DuckDuckGo) May 11, 2022
The Search engine has accused Google of making false statements about the security of its Discussions as well as FLEDGE services. According to the post shared in the May of this year, the corporation slammed the latter for making false claims that its goods were more secure. In order to create a “more private web,” The Tech giant established its Security Sandbox in August of this year. Discussions and FLEDGE were introduced at the beginning of this year via the Sandbox once FLoC was discontinued due to considerable controversy.
The concept is that users have greater authority and visibility over their personal information since you may eliminate subjects you dislike or deactivate Topics altogether. When it comes to Google’s FLEDGE product, the company says it’s “built in a way that no other third-party application can leverage it to monitor user surfing activity between websites.” Google’s product promises are called out by DuckDuckGo, which suggests that their software is superior. However, there are a number of other methods available for ensuring your safety when surfing the web.
Why This Fierce Rivalry?
Basically speaking, the former alleges that Google is misleading its consumers by claiming that Topics and FLEDGE are more secure than the latter’s Search because of this. For more information on these services, check out this blog post from the corporation: As a result, it claims that despite Google’s assurances of increased confidentiality, the company’s new services are really “creepy” and “privacy-invasive.”
Since these programs monitor your digital behavior and exchange your personal information with web pages and advertising without your permission, the firm considers this to be the case. – The overarching argument from the former is that your information isn’t secure until privacy is set as the preferred setting.
To provide just one example, it claims Google’s justification that customers may eliminate Subjects they wouldn’t wish to be monitored for is codswallop since most users don’t alter their standard browsing options According to the report, Google’s “dark patterns” render it extremely tough for consumers to accomplish just that. DuckDuckGo claims that FLEDGE operates in the same way as third-party cookies. Ads may approach users on some other pages by requesting that Google classify and categorize them like a certain demographic.
The bottom line is that Google nonetheless sells your information to advertising and renders it difficult for users to modify the configuration to private. Ads may target and re-target your browsing history, which is one major and lingering concern.
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DuckDuckGo Disappoints Users: Trackers in Search
DuckDuckGo sees itself as an anonymous alternative to Google. But the internal browser makes an exception for Microsoft tracking, which surprises many users. We explain to you what it is.
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DuckDuckGo Admits Allowing Microsoft Trackers in Its Browser
The so-called privacy-centric search engine DuckDuckGo is said to have been allowing Microsoft ad trackers in its browser, which is contrary to its private browsing principles.
This was found by a security researcher, who noted DuckDuckGo’s browser for iOS and Android allows trackers from LinkedIn and Bing. Soon, DuckDuckGo’s CEO came up to explain that it’s an intentional allowance for Microsoft due to an agreement, which they’re trying to void.
Microsoft Trackers in DuckDuckGo Browser
Observing the web becoming filthy with trackers and cookies for targeted ads, companies like DuckDuckGo, Brave, etc., have risen to offer privacy-focused users a healthy alternative. DuckDuckGo, for example, promises to block all the trackers and cookies to avoid any interest-based advertising.
But to sustain, it shows contextual-based ads, which don’t need deeper tracking like what Chrome does. DuckDuckGo, in this case, relies on Bing search results to serve its own customers, thus will show any ads that come from Microsoft.
Though Microsoft tracks your IP address and other related information when clicking on an ad link, it does that for “accounting purposes” and not to profile users for advertising. And since DuckDuckGo uses the Bing engine, Microsoft slipped in a clause to let its trackers in DuckDuckGo’s mobile browsers.
You can capture data within the DuckDuckGo so-called private browser on a website like Facebook’s https://t.co/u8W44qvsqF and you’ll see that DDG does NOT stop data flows to Microsoft’s Linkedin domains or their Bing advertising domains.
iOS + Android proof:
👀🫥😮💨🤡⛈️⚖️💸💸💸 pic.twitter.com/u3Q30KIs7e— ℨ𝔞𝔠𝔥 𝔈𝔡𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔡𝔰 (@thezedwards) May 23, 2022
This was proved by a security researcher named Zach Edwards, who discovered Microsoft trackers in DuckDuckGo’s iOS and Android clients. He found trackers related to the bing.com and linkedin.com domains while all other (like from Google, Facebook, etc.) trackers are blocked!
This raged the community as to why DuckDuckGo hid this information from users while boasting to be transparent about all its advertising plans. Soon, the platform’s CEO and founder Gabriel Weinberg came up to admit that it was an agreement with Microsoft to let their trackers in DuckDuckGo’s mobile browsers.
When you load our search results, you are completely anonymous, including ads. For ads, we worked with Microsoft to make ad clicks protected. From our public ads page https://t.co/KHpWJ8LIV5, “Microsoft Advertising does not associate your ad-click behavior with a user profile.”
— Gabriel Weinberg (@yegg) May 23, 2022
Explaining that it was a search syndication agreement with Microsoft, Weinberg’s team is working to remove this clause from their agreement. Further, “We’re also working on updates to our app store descriptions to have more information. Hope this is helpful context.”
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