Duckduckgo search engines android Continue 1 5.65.0 10.8MB DuckduckGo Privacy Browser 1 5.64.0 10.8MB DuckduckGo Privacy Browser 1 5.63.1 10.78MB DuckduckGo Privacy Browser 1 5.62.0 10.36MB DuckduckGo Privacy Browser 1 5.61.2 10.36MB DuckduckGo Privacy Browser 1 5.60.0 10.35MB DuckduckGo Privacy Browser 1 5.59.1 10.35MB DuckduckGo Privacy Browser 1 5.58.1 10.33MB DuckduckGo Privacy Browser 1 5.57.1 10.31MB DuckduckGo Privacy browser © DuckduckGo. Privacy, simplified. This article is about the search engine. For children's play, see duck, duck, goose. Internet search engine DuckDuckGoScreenshot home page DuckDuckGo on 2018Type search engine siteWeb Unavailable inMultilingualHeadquarters20 Paoli PikePaoli, Pennsylvania, USA Area servedWorldwideOwnerDuck Duck Go, Inc., createdGabriel WeinbergURLduckduckgo.comAlexa rank 158 (October 2020 update) CommercialRegregedSeptember 25, 2008; 12 years ago (2008-09-25) was an Internet search engine that emphasized the privacy of search engines and avoided the filter bubble of personalized search results. DuckDuckGo differs from other search engines by not profiling its users and showing all users the same search results for this search term. The company is based in Paoli, Pennsylvania, in Greater Philadelphia and has 111 employees since October 2020. The name of the company is a reference to the children's game duck, duck, goose. The results of the DuckDuckGo Survey are a compilation of more than 400 sources, including Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Bing, Yandex, own web scanner (DuckDuckBot) and others. It also uses data from crowdsourcing sites, including Wikipedia, to fill in the knowledge panel boxes to the right of the results. As of August 2020, there were an average of 65,166,695 daily searches. DuckDuckGo positions itself as a search engine that puts privacy first and as such does not store IP addresses, does not register user information and uses cookies only when necessary. Gabrielle Weinberg, creator of DuckDuckGo, states: By default, DuckDuckGo does not collect or share personal information. This is our privacy policy in a nutshell. It maintains logs of all search terms used although not in a personally identifiable way. Weinberg clarified the quality of his results in the search engine, deleting search results for companies he believes are content factories such as eHow Demand Media, which publishes 4,000 articles a day produced by paid freelance writers, which Weinberg said is low quality content designed specifically to rank highly in Google's search index. DuckDuckGo also filters pages with Advertising. Instant Responses In addition to indexing search results, DuckDuckGo displays relevant results called called Answers at the top of the search page. These instant responses are collected either from third-party api or static data sources such as text files. Instant responses are called zeroclickinfo because the intention behind them is to provide what users are looking for on the result page of their own search so that they don't have to click any results to find what they are looking for. There were 1,236 instant responses by July 2019. Instant responses are open source and are supported on GitHub, where everyone can build or work on them. Access to Tor In August 2010, DuckDuckGo introduced an anonymous search, including an exit enclave, for its search engine traffic via the Tor network and providing access through the onion service. This provides anonymity by routing traffic through a number of encrypted relays. Weinberg said: I believe this is in line with our privacy policy. Using Tor and DDG, you can now be from end to end anonymous with search. And if you use our encrypted homepage, you can be end to end encrypted as well. Voice Search In 2011, DuckDuckGo introduced voice search for users of Google Chrome's voice search expansion. DuckDuckGo Bangs includes! Bang keywords that give users the ability to search on specific third-party websites - using their own search engine site if applicable. As of August 2020, 13,564 bangs are available for a wide range of internet sites. In December 2018, about 2,000 bangs were removed. Some have been removed due to their removal, while others, such as searches for pirated content sites, have been removed for liability reasons. DuckDuckGo's business model generates revenue by serving ads from the Yahoo-Bing search network and through partnerships with Amazon and eBay. Some of duckDuckGo's source code is free software hosted on GitHub under an Apache 2.0 license, but the kernel is proprietary. The company registered the domain name ddg.gg february 22, 2011 and acquired duck.com in December 2018, which are used as abbreviated URL aliases that are redirected to duckduckgo.com. The story of DuckDuckGo was founded by Gabriel Weinberg on February 29, 2008 in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Weinberg is an entrepreneur who has previously launched a database of names, a now defunct social network. Originally self-funded by Weinberg, DuckDuckGo is an advertisement supported, but the user has the ability to disable ads. The search engine is written in Perl and works on nginx, FreeBSD and Linux. DuckDuckGo is built primarily on search APIs from various vendors. Because of this, TechCrunch described the service as hybrid. System. Weinberg explained the beginning of the name in regards to the children's other duck, duck, goose. He said of the origin of the title: In fact it just popped into my head one day and and I just loved it. It certainly depends /derived from the duck goose, but other than that there is no connection, for example, a metaphor . DuckDuckGo was featured on TechCrunch's Elevator Pitch Friday in 2008, and he was a finalist in the 2008 BOSS Mashable Challenge. In July 2010, Weinberg opened the DuckDuckGo Community Website (duck.co) to allow the public to report problems, discuss how to spread the use of the search engine, request features, and discuss open code sources. We didn't invest in it because we thought he was going to beat Google. We invested in it because there is a need for a private search engine. We did it for internet anarchists, people who hang out on Reddit and Hacker News. - Fred Wilson, 2012 TechCrunch Disrupt Conference in New York, DuckDuckGo was not funded independently until Union Square Ventures and Angel investors invested in DuckDuckGo in October 2011. Union Square partner Brad Burnham said: We invested in DuckDuckGo because we made sure we could not only change the way we look for competition, but also do it. In addition, Trisquel, Linux Mint and Midori have switched to using DuckDuckGo as the default search engine. By May 2012, the search engine was attracting 1.5 million searches per day. Weinberg said he earned $115,000 in revenue in 2011 and had three employees, as well as a small number of contractors. The Compete.com 266,465 unique visitors to the site in February 2012. On April 12, 2011, Alexa reported a 3- month growth rate of 51%. DuckDuckGo's own traffic statistics show that in August 2012 there were 1,393,644 visits per day, according to 39,406 visits per day in April 2010 (earliest available). In a long profile in November 2012, The Washington Post reported that in October 2012, the number of searches on DuckDuckGo was up to 45,000,000 a month. The article concludes that Weinberg's ambitious goals make him a particularly strange and dangerous competitor on the Internet. It can do almost anything that Google or Bing can't because it can damage their business model, and if users figure out that they like DuckDuckGo way better, Weinberg can hurt the big boys without even trying. This is an asymmetrical digital war, and its defenders at Union Square Ventures say Google is vulnerable. GNOME released Web 3.10 on September 26, 2013, and starting with this version, the default search engine is DuckDuckGo. In a speech at WWDC 2014 on September 18, 2014, Apple announced that DuckDuckGo would be included as a search option on both iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite in its Safari browser. On March 10, Pale Moon's web browser, starting with version 24.4.0, included DuckDuckGo in the default search engine, also listed it on the browser's homepage. In May 2014 released a redesigned version for beta testers through DuckDuckHack. On May 21, 2014, DuckDuckGo officially released a redesigned version that focused on smarter answers and a more refined look. The new version has added many new features such as images, local search, auto-offer, weather, recipes and more. On November 10, 2014, Mozilla added DuckDuckGo as a search option in Firefox 33.1. On May 30, 2016, The Tor Project, Inc. made DuckDuckGo the default tor Browser 6.0 search engine. In July 2016, DuckDuckGo officially announced an expansion of its partnership with Yahoo! that brought new opportunities for all search engine users, including results filtering and additional links to the site. It also collaborates with Bing, Yandex and Wikipedia to get results or use the features on offer. The company also confirmed that it does not share user information with partner companies, as has always been the case in its policy. On January 23, 2018, DuckDuckGo updated its browser extension and mobile app to keep Internet users safe outside the search box. The updated extension and app include a tool to evaluate websites based on their use of encryption and network advertising tracking, as well as the ability to block ad tracking networks. The extension also provides for a summary of the conditions of service from the Terms of Service; I haven't read it.