i don’t want to offend anyone, but some open source/privacy enthusiasts dislike google, but why?? google has made chromium, android, etc and most of the things they do are open source, and not only that, they also support creative commons media or public domain. i know the privacy concernes they may have, but they would never do anything bad to you. i love google personally because of their commitment to open source software.
duckduckgo search is certainly not open source.
Chrome also isnt open-source.
Chromium is, but Google mainly uses it to gain size and push standards that benefit them.