These numbers exclude Ecosia, Brave, Qwant and all the other search engines that have seen a surge in sign-ups over the last few days.
You are also seeing people take the opportunity to switch browsers. Vivaldi specifically has reported substantial growth recently.
Article talking about DuckDuckGo: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/duckduckgo-installs-are-up-30-as-users-reject-being-force-fed-googles-ai-search/
A website to help you start your own journey: https://purchasewithpurpose.io/
Keep it up and spread the word. No better time to make an impact.
Do you guys find DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, or Qwant to be better?
I find them to be not Google. Which has become so bad anyway that even if they are slightly worse, I don’t really notice. For example I often resort to Google when I get frustrated with ddg’s results and it rarely fares better.
ecosia and qwant are at least not american, but all three really enjoy AI which I don’t like. I personally use ecosia.
DuckDuck and Qwant for me
I seem to not be able to disable AI stuff on Ecosia anymore
They all primarily use Bing, so the results are pretty similar.
If French or German happens to be your first language, Ecosia & Qwant have been collaborating on an EU-centric search index to deliver better localized results, starting with those two markets.
Otherwise, it’s kindof a wash.