{"id":1590604,"date":"2026-05-27T14:56:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/EA4pfHegTyJkMQDgwSpivh"},"modified":"2026-05-27T14:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:56:35","slug":"duckduckgos-ai-free-search-saw-nearly-28-more-visits-in-the-week-following-googles-insistence-that-people-love-ai-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/duckduckgos-ai-free-search-saw-nearly-28-more-visits-in-the-week-following-googles-insistence-that-people-love-ai-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"DuckDuckGo’s AI-free search saw nearly 28% more visits in the week following Google’s insistence that people love AI mode"},"content":{"rendered":"
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These days, a typical Google Search feels like an obstacle course. Type out ‘upcoming PC games 2026<\/a>‘ and your gaze has to swerve around a chunky AI overview which recycles the work of human writers in a bid to kneecap efforts to click away from Google. It’s a bleak state of affairs for what was once the premier discovery tool for the internet, and as such many users are looking for alternative search engines.<\/p>\n

DuckDuckGo has been one major winner of this Google Search abandonment. Just for a start, visits to its AI-free search page noai.duckduckgo.com<\/a> between May 20 to May 25 are said to have increased by 22.7% on average week-on-week, with the figures peaking May 24 at 27.7%.<\/p>\n

The DuckDuckGo mobile app saw installs spike in the US by 18.1% on average compared to the previous week. TechCrunch reported<\/a> this growth was sustained over six days, peaking at 30.5% on May 25. An even greater number of iOS users hit download on the app though, with installs seeing an average week-on-week growth of 33% and a peak of 69.9%.<\/p>\n

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