They've made a ton of improvements since the last time I tried them - I'm using them permanently now to get away from Google and it's great. Would recommend giving it a try.

My only 2 complaints are:

1) I make a search and want to see news (or whatever) but they don't show the news link - they only display it based on some algorithm that is wrong all the time.

2) No maps - Google is still the leader here. Would be great to see some sort of integration between duckduckgo and openstreetmap

For 1 -- try adding "news" to the query. That should almost always trigger our News Instant Answer

For 2 -- We actually have maps powered by openstreetmap: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=20+paoli+pike+paoli&ia=maps

Also check out the directions feature we recently integrated to maps so you can hop to another service if you like :)

https://duck.co/blog/post/291/directions

I like their branding. Really like it. More personal, less of a corporate feel. I hope they don't change a thing.

If you don't use any services with ridiculous names, you must be interneting like it's 1999.

More like 1995. Yahoo! Amazon. Google. AltaVista. HotWired. Dogpile. Excite.

Everybody was Yahoo! even then-- still ridiculous. And if you called customer service, somebody yodeled it in your ear. They still might for all I know.

What, the name DuckDuckGo is entirely unlike those serious names Google, Yahoo, and Bing?

To be honest, after years of hearing it, Google kind of sounds serious to me now.