DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
在谷歌声称用户喜爱 AI 模式后，DuckDuckGo 搜索访问量增长了 28%
These days, a typical Google Search feels like an obstacle course. Type out ‘upcoming PC games 2026’ and your gaze has to swerve around a chunky AI overview which recycles the work of human writers in a bid to kneecap efforts to click away from Google. It’s a bleak state of affairs for what was once the premier discovery tool for the internet, and as such many users are looking for alternative search engines.
如今，一次典型的谷歌搜索体验就像是在闯关。当你输入“2026 年即将推出的 PC 游戏”时，你的视线必须绕过大块的 AI 概览内容。这些内容通过重写人类作者的劳动成果，试图阻碍用户点击跳转到其他网站。对于曾经互联网首选的发现工具来说，这是一种令人沮丧的现状，因此许多用户开始寻找替代的搜索引擎。
DuckDuckGo has been one major winner of this Google Search abandonment. Just for a start, visits to its AI-free search page noai.duckduckgo.com between May 20 to May 25 are said to have increased by 22.7% on average week-on-week, with the figures peaking May 24 at 27.7%.
DuckDuckGo 成为了用户逃离谷歌搜索的主要受益者之一。首先，其无 AI 搜索页面 noai.duckduckgo.com 在 5 月 20 日至 5 月 25 日期间的周平均访问量据称增长了 22.7%，并在 5 月 24 日达到 27.7% 的峰值。
The DuckDuckGo mobile app saw installs spike in the US by 18.1% on average compared to the previous week. TechCrunch reported this growth was sustained over six days, peaking at 30.5% on May 25. An even greater number of iOS users hit download on the app though, with installs seeing an average week-on-week growth of 33% and a peak of 69.9%.
DuckDuckGo 移动应用在美国的安装量较前一周平均激增了 18.1%。据 TechCrunch 报道，这种增长持续了六天，并在 5 月 25 日达到 30.5% 的峰值。iOS 用户的下载量增长更为显著，周平均安装增长率为 33%，峰值达到 69.9%。
This all follows Google CEO Sundar Pichai claiming last week that, “People love [Search’s AI Mode].” DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg criticised Google’s all-in-on-AI approach to Search, telling Paul Thurrott, “Google is force-feeding AI with no way to opt out. As a result, their results are getting worse, not better. We want to be the place that puts users in charge and allows them to decide how much or how little AI they want.”
这一切都发生在谷歌首席执行官桑达尔·皮查伊（Sundar Pichai）上周声称“人们喜爱（搜索的 AI 模式）”之后。DuckDuckGo 首席执行官加布里埃尔·温伯格（Gabriel Weinberg）批评了谷歌在搜索领域全面押注 AI 的做法，他告诉保罗·瑟罗特（Paul Thurrott）：“谷歌在强行推送 AI，且没有提供退出的选项。结果就是，他们的搜索结果变得更糟了，而不是更好。我们希望成为一个让用户掌握主动权的地方，让他们决定自己想要多少或多少的 AI。”
To be clear, Google isn’t about to lose its Search crown; DuckDuckGo represents about 2% of the search engine market in the US—Google still enjoyed about 85% as of last month.
需要明确的是，谷歌并不会因此失去其搜索霸主的地位；DuckDuckGo 在美国搜索引擎市场仅占约 2% 的份额，而截至上个月，谷歌仍占据约 85% 的市场份额。
DuckDuckGo also offers AI products such as duck.ai, which allows users to chat privately with a number of major LLMs such as GPT-5 mini and Claude Haiku 4.5. Given that Google reported its revenue from search grew by 19% during Q1 2026—apparently thanks to its “AI experiences like AI Mode and AI Overviews”—it wouldn’t make much business sense for any company to completely exile itself from the AI industry at this moment in time.
DuckDuckGo 也提供诸如 duck.ai 之类的 AI 产品，允许用户与 GPT-5 mini 和 Claude Haiku 4.5 等多个主流大语言模型进行私密对话。鉴于谷歌报告称其 2026 年第一季度的搜索收入增长了 19%（显然得益于其“AI 模式和 AI 概览等 AI 体验”），在当前时刻，任何公司完全将自己排除在 AI 行业之外在商业上都是不合理的。
However, DuckDuckGo has endeavoured to prioritise user choice and privacy. Weinberg said earlier this week, “Everything you do in DuckDuckGo is private, we don’t collect search histories or chats, and nothing is used for AI training.”
然而，DuckDuckGo 一直致力于优先考虑用户的选择权和隐私。温伯格在本周早些时候表示：“你在 DuckDuckGo 上所做的一切都是私密的，我们不会收集搜索历史或聊天记录，也没有任何内容被用于 AI 训练。”
According to chief communications officer Kamyl Bazbaz, DuckDuckGo’s own AI overviews remain popular—though so does the option to filter out AI-generated images from search results. He said, “People just want a choice.” Amen to that.
据首席通讯官卡米尔·巴兹巴兹（Kamyl Bazbaz）称，DuckDuckGo 自己的 AI 概览功能依然很受欢迎，但从搜索结果中过滤掉 AI 生成图像的选项也同样受欢迎。他说：“人们只是想要一个选择。”对此，我深表赞同。