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Google is losing users: DuckDuckGo installs are up 30%, and Kagi is seeing 3X growth (lemmy.world)

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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.

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[-] almost1337@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 days ago

Kagi (pronounced kah-gee) was founded in 2018 by Vladimir Prelovac in Palo Alto, CA. Our advisory board includes Raghu Murthi, Dr. Norman Winarsky, Stephen Wolfram and Rory Sutherland.

I... fail to see the problem?

[-] Maxxie@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

Yandex is nice to use when I want to do a search that doesn't give a fuck about DMCA shit.

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