By now I’m sure you’ve heard of DuckDuckGo around the web (and I’ve been mentioning them for years). If you don’t already have the scoop, it’s the search engine that can serve as a complete replacement for Google (and Bing and whatever else you like), except it respects your privacy and security. And while Google does some cool tricks, DuckDuckGo does some even better ones.

Recipes, Calculator, Code snippets, Cheat sheets, Calendar, Search for HTML characters, xkcd, Emoji/emoticons, Social handles, Is it raining, Weather, Generate a password or pass phrase, Shorten URLs, Lipsum, URL Encoding, Stopwatch/timer, Figlet…