It sends anonymous search requests to Microsoft Bing and reports back. Bing is not as good as Google, so about one out of 50 requests I specify Google.

This is her computer.

Highly recommend it.

before making any changes.

Wouldn't use anything else.

I'm on her computer.

with her before switching browsers.

I'm on my wife's computer and I really need to check with her before messing with browsers.

Did download the browser, but I don't think it's better than firefox, so sticking with the fox for browsing. Duckduckgo.com is my go-to search engine

The only thing that I use Google for is to bootleg TV shows. (I know, I know, but I love Scandinavian Noir)

I'm using her computer.

...unlike Google.

I need to check with her before checking out DuckDuckGo.

I've been using them as my default search engine for years. Very very rarely I'll go to googe.com and do a search that returns better results than Duck Duck Go (for very odd/obscure queries), but it's great 99% of the time.

And their privacy can't be beat. I got really tired of doing a Google search only to see related items in my ad feeds for weeks afterwards. That just doesn't happen with DDG.

And ... that's before you even pull back the curtain on just how evil Google has become. Perhaps DDG will turn evil some day, but Google is already something to be avoided.