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From what I can tell, not a heck of alot. It can't do anything about the fact that I will send google my cookies when I go to google.com

It does point to https://encrypted.google.com, which is slightly better, but not much...

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/32367/what-is-th...

Nope, it's just a redirect to Google with your query filled in for the appropriate query string argument.

If you want to use Google privately, use Start Page (http://startpage.com) or Ixquick (http://ixquick.com).

The query from ddg to startpage is !sp and to Ixquick is !ix

"!s" also works for startpage

welp, time to switch to DDG full-time. Thanks!

How do the Start Page and Ixquick search engines differ?

ixquick is its own thing, but startpage mostly gets its content from google. If you want a secure way to search (mostly) google, use startpage. I miss scroogle...

It does not, because !g effectively redirects you to google.com/search?q=foo, where the g00g tracks you as it always does.

You can use !sp (StartPage) to get a proxied Google query result.

Google search, no privacy disclosure.

That's my first fallback if straight DDG doesn't work. I'm falling back less often (about one month of solid DDG use now).