About Search Assist on DuckDuckGo Search

Search Assist is an optional feature in our search results that can anonymously generate answers to search queries. To do this, we scan the web for relevant content and use AI-powered natural language technology to generate a brief answer based on the information found. Search Assist responses always link directly to one or two sources, citing where the answer came from, so you can easily go and get more detailed information. It’s important to remember that responses are auto-generated from cited sources, based on crawling the web.

Search Assist is fully optional. Decide if you want to see them often, sometimes (the default setting), on-demand, or never in your Search Settings.

You can also easily ask follow-up questions in Duck.ai, our private AI-powered chat service that supports chat models from OpenAI, Anthropic and more.

Learn more about DuckDuckGo’s approach to AI, and if you have any questions or concerns, please let us know.