Brett Terpstra:

If you don’t already have the scoop, it’s the search engine that can serve as a complete replacement for Google (and Bing and whatever else you like), except it respects your privacy and security. And while Google does some cool tricks, DuckDuckGo does some even better ones.

I’ve been using DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine ever since it was added as an option in Safari and only have to resort to Google occasionally, mostly for things in Japanese.

The transition was simple, as most of the skills I’d picked up using Google over the years transferred. Since then I’ve learnt some new tricks, like prioritising search results from a country or region and of course their fantastic bang searches.