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Including DuckDuckGo, which uses Bing, market share is now 14.7%.

Assuming the OP's stats are accurate.

My favorite part of DDG is the Bangs that allow me to quickly drop out of DDG when DDG doesn't solve my immediate need. At minimum I can start there, make an attempt then quickly append !g and drop into Google directly. I assume/hope they are using that information to know which searches weren't good enough to improve for the future because it's super useful live feedback.

I didn't know such a feature existed, thanks.

Check out https://duckduckgo.com/bangs you can dump into pretty much any site, Wikipedia, YouTube, Spotify, Google Translate from the DDG search bar if you have a few favorite bangs memorized. You can put the !<bang> anywhere in the query for it to be picked up as well.

Small correction: you can put it almost anywhere. If you have a quoted search, you need a space between the bang syntax and the quotes, even if the bang syntax comes after.

For example, if you search for ["foobar"!g] (without brackets), you will not be redirected to Google, but you would be if you did ["foobar" !g].

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