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Google Quietly Adds DuckDuckGo as a Search Engine Option for Chrome Users in About 60 Markets (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: In an update to the chromium engine, which underpins Google's popular Chrome browser, the search giant has quietly updated the lists of default search engines it offers per market -- expanding the choice of search product users can pick from in markets around the world. Most notably it's expanded search engine lists to include pro-privacy rivals in more than 60 markets globally. The changes, which appear to have been pushed out with the Chromium 73 stable release yesterday, come at a time when Google is facing rising privacy and antitrust scrutiny and accusations of market distorting behavior at home and abroad.
People often complain Duckduckgo.com doesn't return the same number or quality of search results as Google; That's simply not true. The vast majority of the time I use it, I find the information I'm searching for on the first try. Years ago, I made a conscience decision to support Duckduckgo.com because of their ethics. Anyone who cares about their privacy should be supporting organizations that respect it and refuse to use technology that tracks you for marketing and other purposes. So, if you believe the same, step up and start using those technologies to the detriment of those that don't. Send a message.
You're both right. They have their own crawler, but also source results from ~400 other sites, including e.g. Bing, Wikipedia, and WolframAlpha.
https://duck.co/help/results/sources You can get google results by adding !g to your search (or !sp if you want to get google results through startpage.com).