The name can be very deceiving and I honestly don’t know how the creator chose this name, but nonetheless it is a alternate search engine to Google. They pride themselves on being privacy focused and never saving your search data. This means if you are worried about how Google is handling user data then switching to DuckDuckGo may be a suitable alternative. It has all of the features of Google, like being able to convert inches into centimeters, local weather report, and just being a calculator. The search results that you get from both search engines can be a bit different. It seems that DuckDuckGo takes your searches on more literal terms. This is not a bad thing and can even give you better results. DuckDuckGo also has a feature that is called a ‘bang’ search. Basically if you put an exclamation point and then a websites name, or the shorten version, then the search term DuckDuckGo will simply take you right to that website and perform the search. This means if you put in !w, shortcut for Wikipedia, and then the phrase search engines then it will take you straight to the Wikipedia page for search engines. They have most of the popular websites set up to use ‘bang’ search, even google. That is right if you switch to DuckDuckGo and still can’t find what you need you can easily just do !g and whatever you want to search for and it will automatically use Google to search. This means there is no real downside to switching to DuckDuckGo since you can easily get searches from Google if the ones DuckDuckGo provides are not to your liking. Although I have been using DuckDuckGo for my searching needs and there have been very few times where I needed to switch back to Google to find something.