Hi everyone,
I’m choosing a default search engine and I’m torn between DuckDuckGo and Brave Search. What matters most to me:
Privacy: what’s actually logged, and can the claims be trusted? Independence from Big Tech: DDG partly relies on Bing, while Brave has its own index. Result quality: relevance for daily, technical and niche queries. Trust: track record, controversies, business model.
Which one do you use daily, and why? Have you noticed a real quality difference? Thanks!
One thing worth separating: who serves the results vs who sees your query. DDG and Startpage mostly resell Bing or Google results with the tracking stripped; Brave and Mojeek run their own index. If independence matters, Mojeek is the one with a fully independent crawler, though results are thinner. If privacy matters most, the bigger leak is usually the browser and the accounts you’re logged into while searching, not the engine itself.