DuckDuckGo has posted a notable site visitors and set up enhance after Google introduced an AI-first revamp of Search. In response to TechCrunch, visits to DuckDuckGo’s AI-free search web page averaged roughly 84% above baseline and had been up practically 30% week-over-week, whereas U.S. app installs rose 18.1% week-over-week with U.S. iOS installs peaking at 69.9% week-over-week. The corporate has printed a devoted AI-free web page at noai.duckduckgo.com and launched Chrome and Firefox extensions that set its AI-free expertise because the default, TechCrunch stories. Reporting by The Subsequent Net and Futurism notes DuckDuckGo additionally operates an AI product, duck.ai, and CEO Gabriel Weinberg is quoted criticizing Google’s strategy: “Google is force-feeding AI with no approach to decide out.” Business context: the surge displays person pushback to obligatory AI defaults and has sensible implications for search site visitors, discoverability, and search engine optimization.