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Anonymous search networks. DuckDuckGo Review.

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DuckDuckGo– is a well-known open source search enginesource code, which declares, that shedoesn't track anddoes not store personal information of its users. This is independent, which “tired” from online tracking. As the company itself declares:

We help protect your privacy with our free browser, which can be downloaded on Mac, Windows, iOS, and also Android. Unlike Chrome and other browsers, our browser comes with more than 12 powerful built-in privacy protections, including our search engine, which replaces Google and does not track your search history.

Search engine capabilities

DuckDuckGo search results are combined from several sources, including Yahoo!, Bing, Search BOSS, Wikipedia, Wolfram Alpha, as well as our own search robot, etc..

DuckDuckGo browser.​

DuckDuckGo browser – this is a free web browser, which provides privacy protection. It includes privacy protection, including search engine, which replaces Google and doesn't track your search history, and also uses tracker blocking, increased encryption, email protection and much more.
DuckDuckGo Browser for Windows requires Windows 10 (May 2020)

Download browser:

Add-on DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials​

DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials: This extension provides maximum privacy with minimum effort. It offers continuous protection against third-party trackers while searching and browsing websites, blocking email trackers and a number of other benefits. It is available for Chrome and Firefox browsers. The main benefits of this extension include:

  • Search via DuckDuckGo by default.
  • Blocking trackers on websites before, how will they load.
  • Automatic forced encryption of connections to sites (HTTPS)
  • Built-in email security. Implemented by forwarding mail to a user's mailbox like @duck.com
  • Blocking browser fingerprinting.
  • Blocking tracking cookies.
  • Link Tracking Protection, by blocking personal identifiers.
  • Interest tracking protection when viewing ads.
  • Protected by Google AMP, content is downloaded directly from publishers, bypassing Google servers and its trackers.
  • Social media content tracking protection.

Browsers supported(Firefox/Chrome/Edge/Brave/Safari)… although it will work on any lame browser.

Requests !Bang​

The DuckDuckGo search engine has a convenient feature called “bang requests”. If you need to find information on a specific website, you don't need to go to this site and look for the search box.

For example:

  1. !w Paris – This query will redirect you to the Wikipedia page about Paris.
  2. !yt cats – This request will open a YouTube page with videos about cats..
  3. !g translator – This query will open Google Translate.
  4. !a iPhone 15 – This query will open Amazon's iPhone search results page 15.
  5. !w3stag body – This request will redirect you to the HTML Tag Reference page on the W3Schools site, where you will find information about the tag <body>, its description and examples of use.
  6. !4pda android – This request will redirect you to the w3bsit3-dns.com search page for android
  7. !wapp – This request will redirect you to WhatsApp Web

Total at the time of writing duckduckgodeclares 13,564 requests !Bang.

Command line support

Here are more interesting examples.

IP, URL, DNS and email verification.

  • Request "ip» displays the IP address in the top line, user location and zip code.
  • Request "validate (email address)» checks email validity.
  • Query type "i"s virusnet.info down» will allow you to ping the domain.
  • Request "shorten (link)» shortens URL; «expand (link)" - turns back.
  • Request "qr (text)» generates QR codes.
  • Request "password 10» will help you generate a password of the required length
  • Request "random passphrase» generates passphrases (usually consist of four words).
  • Request "base64 encode (text)>» encodes data using the Base64 algorithm, request "base64 decode (text)» - decodes.
  • Request "hash (text)» hashes the text (instead of hash you need to choose one of the following hash functions: MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2, SHA-3). This request also works in the opposite direction and allows you to determine the algorithm by which the hash was generated.
  • DuckDuckGo has a built-in calendar. Request: «calendar»; timer «countdown 10m»; stopwatch: «stopwatch»; calculator "calc».
  • Requests «uppercase" and "lowercase» allow you to convert text to capital letters and vice versa.
  • Request "figlet», allows you to create banners from ASCII characters.