DuckDuckGo
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I like to keep a browser page open for quick access to your search engine. Now, if I click on the search box where DDG is my default search engine to re-open the page, I get a stupid message saying "Oops, no search Please try again". Can you provide a way to remove that?

I am now being told my message is too short: I do not know what else to say to get to 350 chs when I have already explained the issue.

In duckduckgo settings any setting that I change and save is reset when I close and reopen Edge.
I cannot find any help online with this problem, can you folks help me I am getting tired of having to go into settings and redoing it every time I open Edge. Yes, duckduckgo is my preferred search engine.

Now I find that if this, complaint / cry for help, is not 350 char or longer no one will notice it . Okay so I am letting you know that is is a real problem I cannot change settings in duckduckgo save those changed settings, the close Edge and reopen Edge duckduckgo is my preferred search engine and duckduckgo.com is my homepage choice also so when the homepage comes up and I enter in a new search and then select one of the choices I find that the new tab setting that I changed and saved earlier has been reset and the choice that I chose has opened in the original search page and in order to get back to the choice list I have to click the arrow.

I checked you out willing to make some sacrifice because I HATE! google. But there is no comparison. Google is half the search engine it use to be. But your not a search engine at all. If I ask for black you show me 10 pages of white. Then everything else but what I asked for. Just 5 min ago I asked for sites similar to you tube that is ad free or skips ads. Not one. Just dozens of you tube ads on how to use there bypass. Your either a joke or Google owns you.
Either way Im done!

I enter a specific search request "where in new zealand can I buy"grains of paradise" - so - I want to know where, in new zealand, I can buy grains of paradise.
I have specified - in new zealand!
Wtf does your search come up with?...
The first page contains not even one, solitary, single reference to new zealand!
The first item - ebay!
Is ebay in new zealand - is it hell!
More...
The twelfth item is mighty ape in nz - hooray!
Except they do not stock the product!
Need I go on?

I changed to your search engine in the hope it would be more objective than google and the other charlatans.
It is things like this that are totally ruining the same persons experience of the www.

Mine rather than a complain is a suggestion to get a more useful internet search. When you make a research with Google the results show the date of issue, at least for those blogs that allows to show the date. This I believe is an important info for the search, thus I'm wondering if wouldn't be possible to have the same in DuckDuckGo.
Attached is a screenshot with a page searched by Google.

Why do yu claim using ddgo does not allow dude-hits will not be followed around? That's not true. When I launch a search using duckduck as my 'home' icon) which I choose to override Bing--merchandise that I browsed five minutes ago, invariably shows up as dynamic pop-ads n every site I visit thereafrter! How do I avoid this chronic trend?

Good day
When I enter a question to DuckDuckGo and the answers come up it very frequently says I am in Sweden. This is totally false as I am in the UK and it worries me that there is interference of some sort.
I also note that adverts /sites/replies sometimes come up in an eastern language/ Russian /Ukkranain or similar.
I had a report from Gmail some weeks ago that my email had an attempt from Ukraine. I changed pwords etc.
I sometimes read the UK daily mail and again Russian adverts or similar come in at the beginning. I only use Duck Duck Go to access sites and mainly on Opera with the VPN on.
Can you advise me please.

Thank you

Why is DuckDuckGo not following the European Data Protection requirements of the Right to be Forgotten Law? You neither have a Form for filling in online or even any acknowledgment that Data Protection Law is applicable to you? Google alone have actioned over 2.4 Million removal requests and Yahoo with Bong also acknowledge the Right to be Forgotten legislation and action accordingly.

Hi,
Notice this all too often - I search for an item ( looking for variety and a wide range of sellers ) using your engine and the ' shopping ' option ...but most often it is populated with Amazon / Amazon Prime products - I would say 85 % ...you try adding more results by clicking the + icon ...to find still more Amazon results .
This may pay your way, but illustrates the unfair influence of Amazon for both smaller online retailers and buyers seeking a fair representation of options out there . I personally prefer to avoid Amazon, for a number of reasons .
I have stopped using Google as a search engine, though note it returns very many more search results than duckduckgo . But it is a pity you are promoting freedom of browsing, yet are in the pocket of Amazon ?
Is how I see it .

I really want to use you guys' search engine so I can spit in the faces of Google. When I search for something on Duck Duck Go, the results are terrible. For example, Google has their first result in big bold letters when you search for something like Ohio State vs. Wisconsin score. It's unmissable on their site and it's quick and convenient so you aren't having to search through URLs. Duck Duck Go doesn't do that and it makes it really hard to use you guys when you're not as user friendly and I'm sure their are tens of thousands of others that have this same frustration. Please fix it so I can remain a customer of yours.

Thanks

Tyler Hodge

Duck Duck Go — search engine BAD LISTING

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=axolotl&t=lm&ia=web

Charlotte Air Conditioning Repair | - Axolotl
[Search domain www.buy-axolotls.com] https://www.buy-axolotls.com
Buy-Axolotls.com is the World's Best "All Axolotl Website" The Axolotl care instructions are complete, easy to understand, accurate and will not endanger the Axolotl's life.

So I searched "womens rights in islam" and was immediately linked to a bunch of islamist apologia websites. Eight of the first ten pages listed. I was looking for an objective analysis, not a bunch of crap explain that women actually have it great in Islam and that all the evidence otherwise is just a bunch of evil islamaphobic propaganda.

Now, I'm pretty hard-left myself and agree that Islam is incredibly misunderstood in the West, but the first page of results was filled with almost nothing but proselytization pages written by Muslim telling everyone that they should convert, it's a problem.

As you tell by the snap shot below ..when i do a search of Harry lee Denney of bethel ct this text pic in on google Search ( MAGAE ) when you press the text it links to Duckduckgo Complaint page, I contacted Google they said it is up to you to take off the link... Please take off this link

search Harry Lee Denney Of Bethel Ct on Google, then go to Images and it will look like the Screenshot below..click on Image and it sends you to the resolved Complaint with the same image in a screenshot...

Can you please take this link Off, I seen it today 11/5/19 I am Not on any Sex offenders List fed or State.. or can you Please delete the Whole screenshot

This is new is I don't know why it is showing only on google, I did try to get google to take it off or bock the text image, but there blaming you and said it's on your link ..
I don't understand why they just can put a block on it...

Thank you for you time is this, I really don't want to lose my Job ..

Thank you Harry

show below in snap shot, this was resolved and all info for the matter deleled now it he text image is on google and linked to Duckduckgo, so can yo uplease delete or block this info . i am NOT on any sex offenders list...the info was never on google before and now it is ? please take off this info...google said it was all on you and you need to delete the link and any inof form the Complaint

Thank you
Harry

I am never going to complain about duckduckgo, unless they link up with google. Google is offering your app through them and that will defeat the reason people want to use your browser. Google has allowed china full access to all the info they have stored on all of us now. 3000 pages of proof have been released through 2 whistle blowers and now the federal government is looking at charges of treason against them. I hope you can stop them from offering your browser download on their site. It will follow and store all our info and china will have all full access. I love your site and i really dispise the google apps. Thank you so much for all you do to protect all americans. I will never switch. Sincerely tours, marilyn j. Miller. [protected]@yahoo.com or. [protected]@comcast.net

look above. Also on facebook it had a banner saying that we need another search engine, because they wouldn't support much longer.
My name is Len Landrum and my email is [protected]@outlook.com My cell phone # is [protected]. We have our password and other info to access our account at our bank. Why is it that our local bank do online banking because we have duckduckgo. I'm completely happy with your service but we need to access our online account. If it will do any good we can provide the name of our local bank. thanks
Len Landrum

We are trying to advance DDG to others but have a few questions we keep getting asked. IF could SPEAK to a DDG tech and Get answers we could add hundreds of new Users weekly!
Simple questions ... but without answers paranoia pops up and DDG loses another potential User!
Really a huge gap in DDG is the ability to get the public past the paranoia created by "other" systems that stomp all over our privacy and fair involvment.

I've been using Duck Duck Go for some time now. For months, I used the Duck Duck Go search engine. About a month ago, I was unable to log onto Duck Duck Go on Saturday morning: when I typed an address into the bar at the top, it flipped to a screen that said something I copied, but can't find now. I tried using Yandex, but the same thing happened, and I was unable to log onto the Internet. I was able to do so using Google, but by the afternoon, Google was giving me the same message, and I couldn't log on there either. The next day I was able to get onto the Internet again, but when I typed anything into the search bar in the middle or the address bar at the top, it immediately flipped me to Yahoo. I hate Yahoo. I then understood that the problem on Saturday had been Yahoo taking control of my computer, hijacking it. I try to retype my queries insisting that Duck Duck Go, Yandex, or (last resort) Google handle it, and NOT Yahoo. Sometimes I can get around using Yahoo, but usually I can't.

I am going to hire a computer repairman to come to my house, difficult as it would be for me to pay him over a hundred dollars to disable Yahoo on my computer, but I'm going to do it if I can't get rid of it any other way. I saw online that Duck Duck Go has run into the arms of Yahoo as its default search engine. Why would you do that? How can I get rid of it? Thanks!

When I attempt a search for white couples I dont receive images of "white" couples, when I do a search of black couples I get very few "black" couples. When I alter search to man + woman white or black couple then it I get couples that are not man and woman nor are they "shade" specific. This is very annoying! I'm trying to complete a project and all I want is a variety of opposite sex "same shade" images. It's weird that these images aren't readily available.

I'd expect this of Google, and Google in fact does this as well, but I would expect DuckDuckGo to be more objective. If you go into image search and type in "black couples" you get only images of black couples. If you type in "asian couples" you get only images of asian couples. If you type in "white couples" you get more interracial couples and families, plus gay couples (which you don't get with the first two searches), than you get white couples. This is plain manipulation of the search algorithms and DDG should do better!