DuckDuckGo's 'No AI' Search Traffic Climbs as Users Reject Google's AI Overhaul - MacRumors

DuckDuckGo's No AI search traffic more than triples after Google's May 19 I/O AI overhaul. Visits to the No AI page hit 3x baseline on May 28 and have averaged 84 percent above baseline since May 19. DuckDuckGo promotes Chrome and Firefox extensions that set No AI as default, offering no AI-assisted answers, no chat interface, and fewer AI images. The No AI experience disables DuckDuckGo's own AI tools. DuckDuckGo plans to add No AI settings to its original browser extensions. Users seeking privacy-focused search without AI are increasingly choosing DuckDuckGo over Google's AI-enhanced features.