....following Google's insistence that people love AI mode | PC Gamer
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/duckduckgos-ai-free-search-saw-nearly-28-percent-more-visits-in-the-week-following-googles-insistence-that-people-love-ai-mode/
Both things can be true.
DDG claims about 0.76% of search. Google is >90%
So if 1% of Google searchers hate it enough to defect to DDG, that would more than double DDG's traffic.