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In July 2016, DuckDuckGo officially announced the extension of its partnership with Yahoo! that brought new features to all users of the search engine, including date filtering of results and additional site links. The extension also blocks hidden trackers on websites you visit and secures your connection when you visit a website over an unencrypted protocol. Setting DuckDuckGo as your default search engine eliminates the need to visit the DuckDuckGo website every time you want to use it. In this article, we’ll show you how to search using different DuckDuckGo products, including its privacy-focused search engine, browser and extension. While this makes it possible for users to get customized search results, it means companies like Google and Microsoft — not to mention third parties — have your sensitive personal data. Almost every other search engine will track the web pages you visit and use this information to filter results and create targeted ads.
Internal surveys by DuckDuckGo found that users of DuckDuckGo had a wide variety of political leanings. McCracken included the site in Time's list of "50 Best Websites of 2011." The bare-bones approach cited in his quote has since changed; for instance, DuckDuckGo now