U.S. mobile app installs for DuckDuckGo increased 18.1% week-over-week on average after Google I/O introduced new AI features. Growth peaked at 33% on May 25, and iOS installs rose 33% week-over-week with a peak of 69.9% on May 25. Traffic also increased to the AI-free page noai.duckduckgo.com, where AI features are turned off by default, averaging 22.7% week-over-week growth and peaking at 27.7% on May 24. DuckDuckGo said the change was mainly U.S.-focused and not a coincidental global trend, and it continued through Memorial Day weekend. The company attributed the shift to users wanting the ability to opt out of AI.
""Google is force-feeding AI with no way to opt out," DuckDuckGo Founder and CEO Gabriel Weinberg said in a statement. "As 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. That's why we're seeing a spike in people coming to DuckDuckGo this week, it's as simple as that.""
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