Judging by my own experience and some of my colleagues, this seems to be the case. I switched to DDG about a week before the whole NSA thing. At first it was a

Judging by my own experience and some of my colleagues, this seems to be the case. I switched to DDG about a week before the whole NSA thing. At first it was awkward, queries are slower than google (sometimes the results are worse), but after a while I stopped noticing it. I don't mind waiting a second more if it means not being tracked, and most of the time my queries are simple and the results are on par with other search engines. *edit changed <<worst>> to <<worse>> the results aren't that bad...