If you read DDG TOS (1) you'll see that they save your queries and are being somewhat disengunous about doing so (half-buried half-way down the page there's this gem):

"We also save searches, but again, not in a personally identifiable way, as we do not store IP addresses or unique User agent strings. We use aggregate, non-personal search data to improve things like misspellings."

I wonder how many folks that use DDG know this is taking place (or even bothered to read that far down the TOS).

(1) https://duckduckgo.com/privacy

+1 to this. If you search for your name or IP address etc. they will save that query forever and there's no way you can delete this.

When we founded https://you.com we read other search engines' TOS and decided to give users a choice: to have some personalization or be completely private. In private mode, we do not store any queries or anything else about the user. You can find details about our privacy policy here: https://youdotcom.notion.site/Privacy-and-Data-Protection-at...

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