[jobu]

I'm a little surprised that Apple hasn't bought DuckDuckGo. Their privacy goals seem to mostly overlap and DuckDuckGo has really gotten good. Lately I've found them to be as good or better than Google for most technical or informational searches. The results are accurate and they seem to have less of a problem with bogus results from content scraping sites.

Google really does shine at location based searches though. If I'm looking for a physical place in any location or region, Google can be scary good (even when I misspell something).

[three_seagrass]

Duck Duck Go is a reskin of Bing Search. It's not a real search engine in the 2020 meaning of the word.

Apple would be better off just using the Bing API too.

[rileyteige]

A big part of what makes DDG great for me is that they are NOT owned by a mega corp.