Duckduckgo is a small, but functionally very strong Alternative to the all-powerful Google search. The main feature of the search engine is that you have no personal information that we collect and thus also the creation of user - and usage-profiles, to prevent, or at least more difficult. Reason enough, this service is a Chance to give and some of its unknown features to try.
Duckduckgo can also English. If the page is in English, is probably due to your Browser configuration. With a click on the menu button, Duckduckgo, and "Advanced settings", you can, among other things, the Region and the language set. The entire configuration is stored in a Cookie, its content, click "Bookmarklet and Settings data to show" view.
On the same page, you can also all of your settings in the Duckduckgo-Cloud store. To do this you must click on "save settings" button and a Passphrase assigned. From this is then used with the SHA-2 algorithm with a Hash value is generated, the configuration file gets the hash as a name and is on the Amazon S3 cloud storage to be loaded. This file contains no personal data.
Just like the Google search also offers Duckduckgo so-called "instant answers". This means that if you do certain things in the search box (for example, 14+8, or cos(243)) then provides the search engine directly with the answer. In addition to Rechenergebnissen you can for more interesting answers.
Enter the name of a prominent Person (such as Albert Einstein), then it directly appears a brief introduction from Wikipedia. The search phrase movies with
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You can free download DuckDuckGo and safe install the latest trial or new full version for Windows 10 (x32, 64 bit, 86) from the official site.
Devices: Desktop PC, Laptop (ASUS, HP, DELL, Acer, Lenovo, MSI), Ultrabook
OS: Professional, Enterprise, Education, Home Edition, versions: 1507, 1511, 1607, 1703, 1709, 1803, 1809