New setting: hide AI-generated images in DuckDuckGo. Our philosophy about AI features is “private, useful, and optional.” Our goal is to help you find what you’re looking for. You should decide for yourself how much AI you want in your life – or if you want any at all. (1/4)

OpenAI's GPT‑5 has landed at 🦆 — where you can use multiple AI models while protecting your privacy. It's free and anonymized by us, with no sign-up required. Win, win, and win!. p.s. We still have GPT-4o mini as an option, too 💁

🔍 Want more from your search results? You can now expand Search Assist answers into full, rich responses -- just click "More" to dive deeper into topics. We're here to give you the info you need, when and how you need it. (And let you turn AI off if you don't want it at all)

New to More chat models can search the web!. Ask either Claude Haiku 3.5 (Anthropic) or GPT-4o mini (OpenAI) your most timely questions, and get up-to-date answers with linked sources. Anonymized by us, with no AI training on your data.

Recent improvements include:. *VPN users can now choose from more than 40 locations in 30+ countries.*improved scam blocking.*faster Personal Information Removal scans. and more. See all the highlights here 👇.

This just in: we now offer a free 7-day trial for Privacy Pro. We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to make our privacy-protecting subscription more comprehensive, more powerful, and easier to use. Now's the perfect time to try it. 👇.

ICYMI: You can customize your chats, tailoring the interaction to your needs. Customizations get applied to all future conversations until reset or modified. What hasn't changed? is private, free and optional. No account required.

This reinforces our user-first philosophy in the growing AI search landscape. Want to help others find a better Google alternative? Click here to be taken back to the top to share this with your followers. 👇.

As AI search evolves, we're focused on user choice rather than imposing one-size-fits-all solutions. Sometimes you want quick facts, sometimes you need a comprehensive answer—now users control that experience. Or completely turn AI off.

In sum, while most AI search tools like Google's AI Overviews default to lengthy responses, we're going concise by default, detailed on demand—letting users choose when they want more comprehensive answers.

9. Like all of our search results, Search Assist is anonymous. We crawl sites and generate answers on your behalf, not exposing your personal information in the process or storing it ourselves.

8. We have a separate search crawling bot for Search Assist answers called DuckAssistBot that respects robots.txt headers. By separating DuckAssistBot from our normal DuckDuckBot, and unlike Google, we allow publishers to opt-out of just our Search Assist feature.

7. Our thumbs up/down is also visible by default, not hidden behind a click. This anonymous feedback is extremely valuable to us as a primary signal to help us find ways to improve.

6. All source links are always visible, not hidden behind any clicks or separated from the answer. We’ve also been keeping sources to a minimum to both increase answer quality and increase source engagement.

5. When we don’t think a Search Assist answer is better than the other results, we don’t show it on top. Instead, we’ll show it in the middle, on the bottom, or not at all. This flexibility enables a more fine-tuned UX.

4. You can use the Assist button to either generate an answer on demand if one isn’t showing automatically, or collapse an answer that is showing to zero vertical space.

3. The initial Search Assist summary is intentionally short, keeping hallucinations to a minimum. You also get the complete thought without having to click anything. However, you can still click for a fuller explanation. This is a subtle but important distinction: clicking more.

2. When it does show, Search Assist keeps vertical space to a minimum so you can still easily get to other search results.

Fed up with Google? Here are 9 important ways our Search Assist differs from Google’s AI Overviews:. 1. You can turn Search Assist off or turn it up—your preference.

How it works:. *3-source summaries that don't overwhelm the page and are less prone to hallucinate. *Click "More" only when you want deeper answers. *Zero extra vertical space when collapsed so you see search results faster and cleaner. *Direct source links always visible.