I've been sleeping on DDG lately but they've been keeping up with AI chat & search too, in ways that align with their brand:

• Free access to various AI chatbots on duck.ai
• Opt-in AI-assisted answers on duckduckgo.com
• DDG subscription model with more advanced AI chat models, VPN & more
• DDG browser visual design overhaul with button shortcut to duck.ai (and option to disable/hide button)

Their pitch is that when you use AI chat/search on one of their platforms your chats/searches are anonymized because DDG calls the AI models on your behalf, none of the data is used for training, chats are stored on your device, and you can delete all of it instantly with the "Fire Button" :fire:

According to statcounter, DDG averages 2.5% of U.S. SE market share over the past year. If you know your audience values online privacy (maybe even more than quality of search results) it could be worth doing some SERP analysis on there. SerpAPI has a DDG SERP scraper if you really want to dig in.