As 2015 draws to a close the number of Instant Answers (IAs) on DuckDuckGo is over 660, the majority of which were created by our kind community of contributors. They cover an eclectic variety of topics from general to niche — sometimes very niche! Let's look back at the favorite and most-used IAs for some of the DuckDuckGo staff. Perhaps you'll discover new ones that can speed up your searching in 2016...

Caine, Search I love weather and videos. I use calculator a lot, but wish it was better. (Editor: Improvements to the calculator are being worked on.)

Andrey, Search A Bulgarian guy living in the UK working for a US company here, so I love the currency Instant Answer. It's been really useful. I was an Arch Linux user earlier this year, so the Arch Package IA was pretty useful too.

Zaahir, Platform My favourites would have to be Product Hunt, NPM, and URL En/decode. I use the first two pretty often to look for things that may or may not exist, the latter whenever I'm dealing with URLs and code. I also use the Metacpan IA all the time.

John, Platform I think what I used most this year is Fallout Wikia but Wikipedia, calculations and currency conversion also get regular use.

If !bangs count, I use !cpan about 500 times per hour.

Olivia, Community For me, it's gotta be the Vi cheat sheet and weather. Both sound boring, but I use them almost every day!