Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine

I can support this, but only if it offers real safety as opposed to Google.

So does it? Or is it safe only because NSA hasn't bothered to go to DDG yet, or do whatever they are doing to get Google's search data (cable splitters or whatever)?

They claim not to record any data, so there's no worry about gov't requests. http://donttrack.us/

Oh wow. I didn't know this.

Interesting. This could become a real competitive advantage for them.

You should read their privacy policy: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy#s5

No, actually it will not.The vast majority of people using Google do not care whether their data search data is being recorded or not. Heck, most even do not know how Google search engine works from 'behind' let alone worry about the difference between Google and DDG.

So they will really need something more compelling to get the average Joe (who make up the vast majority mentioned earlier), who always get his results from Google's first page, to switch from Google to DDG.

Yet, in the context of search engines, I don't see anything that could be more compelling than always getting the most relevant search results.

"Also, like anyone else, we will comply with court ordered legal requests. However, in our case, we don't expect any because there is nothing useful to give them since we don't collect any personal information."

Yes, until the NSA requests that DDG allow them to see all searches in real time. You could argue that it says "court ordered" but no one here has any clue what type of pressure the government used to get PRISM through at a major publicly traded company or what they are capable of with a small operation like DDG.

[added] as pointed out below, the NSA could and will just save the searches which would result DDG being just as insecure as google.

Then the NSA only has to save these searches somewhere in place of DDG - we end up with the same result.