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DuckDuckGo Says User Growth Surged After Google's AI Search Expansion (digitalescapetools.com)
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[–] Digitalescapetools@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

DuckDuckGo is reportedly seeing a surge in users after Google pushed deeper AI integration into Search.

Some users appear to be moving toward privacy-focused and AI-optional alternatives instead of AI-generated search results by default.

Interesting shift in how people want to use the web.