{"id":3082,"date":"2012-01-24T22:12:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T05:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=3082"},"modified":"2012-07-03T08:28:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T14:28:20","slug":"how-to-start-using-duckduckgo-as-your-search-engine-in-30-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=3082","title":{"rendered":"How to start using DuckDuckGo as your search engine in 30 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re fed up with Google (qualms may include: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/insidesearch\/plus.html\">Search Plus Your World<\/a> providing useless results, changing privacy so you&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/updating-our-privacy-policies-and-terms.html\">tracked across products<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/2012\/googles-executive-personalities-make-me-uneasy\/\">weird executives<\/a>, etc.) it&#8217;s really easy to start using <a href=\"http:\/\/duckduckgo.com\">DuckDuckGo<\/a> as your default search engine on your computer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Safari: set hosts file to <code>184.72.115.86 search.yahoo.com<\/code> and change your default search engine to Yahoo<\/li>\n<li>Chrome: visit <a href=\"http:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/\">DuckDuckGo<\/a>, right click address bar, <code>Edit Search Engines...<\/code>, find &#8220;DuckDuckGo&#8221;, click &#8220;Make Default&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Firefox: install <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/duck-duck-go-ssl-search-plugin\/\">this Firefox Addon<\/a><\/li>\n<li>iOS device: install <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/ca\/app\/duckduckgo-search\/id479988136?mt=8\">this app<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using it for a full day now and haven&#8217;t found any issue&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;well, truthfully, since the results are centered horizontally on the page I find myself having to move my mouse to the right a lot more. My muscle memory to immediately hover down and to the left once submitting a search query is surprisingly strong. Illustrated:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Screen-Shot-2012-01-24-at-10.08.15-PM-510x363.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Google mouse hover compared to DuckDuckGo\" width=\"510\" height=\"363\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium-img wp-image-3083\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Screen-Shot-2012-01-24-at-10.08.15-PM-510x363.png 510w, https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Screen-Shot-2012-01-24-at-10.08.15-PM-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Screen-Shot-2012-01-24-at-10.08.15-PM.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And why would you use DuckDuckGo? Well, they <a href=\"http:\/\/donttrack.us\/\">don&#8217;t track you<\/a> (privacy) and <a href=\"http:\/\/dontbubble.us\/\">don&#8217;t bubble you<\/a> (relevance). And their logo is cute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re fed up with Google (qualms may include: Search Plus Your World providing useless results, changing privacy so you&#8217;re tracked across products, weird executives, etc.) it&#8217;s really easy to start using DuckDuckGo as your default search engine on your computer: Safari: set hosts file to 184.72.115.86 search.yahoo.com and change your default search engine to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3082"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4648,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions\/4648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}