The company name is a reference to the children's game duck, duck, goose. The company is based in Paoli, Pennsylvania, in Greater Philadelphia and had 200 employees as of November 2022. Because of its anonymity, it is impossible to know how many people use DuckDuckGo. It uses various APIs of other websites to show quick results to queries and for traditional links it uses the help of its partners (mainly Bing) and its own crawler.

DuckDuckGo does not show search results from content farms. Nevertheless, optimizing specifically for any non-Google search engine remains highly unlikely.September 25, 2008 14 years ago ( ) ĭuckDuckGo ( DDG) is an internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and used to avoid the filter bubble of personalized search results. It is still miles behind Google, but DuckDuckGo is gradually closing in on Yahoo! and Bing, so a future in which it is as much a part of the conversation as Bing may not be that far off.

Its success, while modest, may provide new or existing search engines with a roadmap to chipping away at Google’s dominance or avoiding it altogether by concentrating on an underserved base of users. That same focus on privacy has also helped propel DuckDuckGo past 100 billion searches all-time. Why we care. Pressure over consumer privacy has prompted Apple and Google to block third-party cookies from tracking users across the web.

DuckDuckGo continues to grow on a daily basis. Now if you look at its public traffic statistics page, it shows all time searches passed 100,024,437,307 and the highest daily number of queries it saw to date was 110,439,133, that record was this past Monday.

You recognized your right to privacy & chose it!? /HyvMOBK26E- DuckDuckGo January 13, 2022Ī year ago, the search company announced it was hitting over a 100 million searches per day.

What you searched (like cat memes) was your business & only yours.

Your search history wasn't a data point.

Thanks to you, we've hit 100 billion all time private searches!

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