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.
They do use yandex services(russian state cloud provider) among others. That’s not that damning – its one of the few ‘independent’ (as in, not google or microsoft) search indexes.
That’s the only connection I know of, other than CEO named Vladimir.
Yandex is nice to use when I want to do a search that doesn’t give a fuck about DMCA shit.