DuckDuckGo on Time's top 50 websites.

My favorite search engine apparently made it to the top 50 websites of 2011 according to Time's.

So what's DuckDuckGo? Wikipedia summarize it as follow:

DuckDuckGo is a search engine based in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania that uses information from crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia) with the aim of augmenting traditional results and improving relevance. The search engine philosophy emphasizes privacy and does not record user information

What's makes this search engine stand out according to me is the privacy policy and the awesome function of what they call bangs. The bang function is simply a search function to search other sites directly.

Type a bang command like:

!amazon mad caddies - which will directly list all the albums of the artist.

!python - math - lists the methods of math class.

!askubuntu nvidia 11.04 - gets issues regarding Ubuntu 11.04 and Nvidia cards.

Other goodies you can use:

md5

password 15 strong

whois duckduckgo.com

And so on, check out all the bangs and goodies on DuckDuckGo.

Note: Try search for "Simpsons characters"

Link to Time's article.:

I just discovered DuckDuckGo on TIME's list of Best Websites. Explore it and more must-see sites on TIME.com.