14 Facts About DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo is an internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results.

DuckDuckGo name is a reference to the children's game duck, duck, goose.

DuckDuckGo is built primarily upon search APIs from various vendors.

In 2010, DuckDuckGo began using privacy to differentiate itself from its competitors.

DuckDuckGo can do almost everything that Google or Bing can't because it could damage their business models, and if users figure out that they like the DuckDuckGo way better, Weinberg could damage the big boys without even really trying.

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In May 2014, DuckDuckGo released a redesigned version to beta testers through DuckDuckHack.

DuckDuckGo confirmed that it does not share user information with partner companies, as has always been its policy.

However, in a statement to Engadget, DuckDuckGo said that The Pirate Bay and Youtube-dl were never removed from its search results if the user searched for those websites using their name or web address.

DuckDuckGo said that there were problems with "site:" search queries used for these websites and other searches and said that the problem had been fixed.

DuckDuckGo earns revenue by serving ads from the Yahoo-Bing search alliance network and through affiliate relationships with Amazon and eBay.

Bare-bones approach cited in his quote has since changed; for instance, DuckDuckGo now has auto-completion, instant results, and a news tab.

In January 2019, DuckDuckGo set a record of 1 billion monthly searches; and in November of the same year, it hit 50 million searches per day.

Internal surveys by DuckDuckGo found that users of DuckDuckGo had a wide variety of political leanings.

DuckDuckGo chose to use the WebKit rendering engine that underpins Apple's Safari browser rather than the fork of it called Blink used by Chromium, Opera and Brave.