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, peaking at 69.9% on May 25. Traffic also increased to DuckDuckGo’s AI-free page, noai.duckduckgo.com, which turns off AI features by default, averaging 22.7% week-over-week growth and peaking at 27.7% on May 24. DuckDuckGo said the increase was mainly U.S.-focused and not a coincidental global trend, and it continued through Memorial Day weekend. DuckDuckGo attributed the shift to users wanting control over how much AI they receive.
"U.S. installs of the search engine's mobile app are up 18.1 percent week-over-week on average following Google's big I/O event, where the search giant introduced a slew of new AI features into its search product. DuckDuckGo app installs peaked at 33 percent growth on May 25."
"Just looking at DuckDuckGo's iOS installs, the growth following Google I/O is even more astonishing, with 33 percent week-over-week growth and peaking at a whopping 69.9 percent on May 25. According to DuckDuckGo, traffic also spiked to its AI-free search page, noai.duckduckgo.com."
"This DuckDuckGo search page has every AI featured turned off by default and saw an average of 22.7 week-over-week growth following Google I/O, with a peak of 27.7 percent on May 24. DuckDuckGo said it wasn't only the timeframe that was relevant, either. The growth happened mainly in the U.S. following Google's "U.S. centric announcement" and does not indicate a coincidental global trend."
""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.""
Read at Mashable India
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