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On March 10, the Pale Moon web browser, starting with version 24.4.0, included DuckDuckGo as its default search engine, as well as listed it on the browser's homepage. Īt its keynote speech at WWDC 2014 on September 18, 2014, Apple announced that DuckDuckGo would be included as an option for search on both iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite in its Safari browser. GNOME released Web 3.10 on September 26, 2013, and starting with this version, the default search engine is DuckDuckGo. It's asymmetrical digital warfare, and his backers at Union Square Ventures say Google is vulnerable. He 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. Weinberg's non-ambitious goals make him a particularly odd and dangerous competitor online. In a lengthy profile in November 2012, The Washington Post indicated that searches on DuckDuckGo numbered up to 45,000,000 per month in October 2012. DuckDuckGo's own traffic statistics show that in August 2012 there were 1,393,644 visits per day, up from an average of 39,406 visits per day in April 2010 (the earliest data available). On April 12, 2011, Alexa reported a 3-month growth rate of 51%. estimated 266,465 unique visitors to the site in February 2012.

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Weinberg reported that it had earned US$115,000 in revenue in 2011 and had three employees, plus a small number of contractors. īy May 2012, the search engine was attracting 1.5 million searches a day. Union Square partner Brad Burnham stated, 'We invested in DuckDuckGo because we became convinced that it was not only possible to change the basis of competition in search, it was time to do it.' In addition, Trisquel, Linux Mint, and the Midori web browser switched to use DuckDuckGo as their default search engine. Fred Wilson, 2012 TechCrunch Disrupt Conference in New York ĭuckDuckGo was self-funded until Union Square Ventures and angel investors invested in DuckDuckGo in October 2011. We did it for the Internet anarchists, people that hang out on Reddit and Hacker News. We invested in it because there is a need for a private search engine. We didn't invest in it because we thought it would beat Google. gg on February 22, 2011, and acquired in December 2018, which are used as shortened URL aliases that redirect to. The company registered the domain name ddg. In July 2010, Weinberg started a DuckDuckGo community website () to allow the public to report problems, discuss means of spreading the use of the search engine, request features, and discuss open sourcing the code. It is certainly influenced/derived from duck duck goose, but other than that there is no relation, e.g., a metaphor.' DuckDuckGo was featured on TechCrunch's Elevator Pitch Friday in 2008, and it was a finalist in the 2008 BOSS Mashable Challenge. He said of the origin of the name: 'Really it just popped in my head one day and I just liked it. Weinberg explained the beginnings of the name with respect to the children's game duck, duck, goose. Because of this, TechCrunch characterized the service as a 'hybrid' search engine. DuckDuckGo is built primarily upon search APIs from various vendors.

The search engine is written in Perl and runs on nginx, FreeBSD, and Linux. Initially self-funded by Weinberg up until 2011, it was then 'backed by Union Square Ventures and a handful of angel investors.' DuckDuckGo gains revenue via advertisements and affiliate programs. Weinberg is an entrepreneur who previously launched Names Database, a now-defunct social network. Later on, in 2018, a mobile web browser was introduced. DuckDuckGo was founded by Gabriel Weinberg and launched on February 29, 2008, in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

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