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DuckDuckGo installs are up 30% as users reject being ‘force-fed’ Google’s AI Search
(techcrunch.com)
this post was submitted on 27 May 2026
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Thats depressing. % stats like this always oversell it. There are probably not many people installing duckduckgo so a 30% increase is a small handful of users. I'd expect like 500% if there was actual pushback.
Unfortunatly there will not be an actual pushback, because most people will always prefer convinience above almost anything else.
Even facts.
I know so many people who will use ChatGPT fully knowing it might be wrong. They dont care.
Scary, right?
Or that it's a supremely scummy and buggy, even compared to other LLM frontends.
I for one don't install any search engines. I don't see a point in doing so.
Hey does anyone else remember the days of helping your relatives figure out why their computer is so slow and you fire up their browser and see like nine search bars installed?
50 million+ installs on Android, so it's not a tiny number.
Thats way more than I expected when I made the comment and I think that changes my opinion on it being a small amount.