2021 looks to become another record year for the DuckDuckGo search engine

[douglas9]

Can a privacy-focused search engine survive on today's Internet? It appears that it can, as DuckDuckGo is looking to end the year 2021 with another record-breaking traffic increase.

I have followed the rise of DuckDuckGo since 2012, when I announced here on this site that it became my primary search engine. I had plenty of reasons for that, but privacy was the main one.

Then came PRISM, and DuckDuckGo's traffic started to rise a lot. Back in 2013, traffic rose to more than 2 million queries per day, a small number for search engine heavyweight Google Search, but an important milestone for the DuckDuckGo search engine.

In 2015, DuckDuckGo reported that it crossed the 10 million daily searches mark, and this year (2021), it managed to cross the 100 million searches mark for the first time.


https://www.ghacks.net/2021/06/17/2021-looks-to-become-another-record-year-for-the-duckduckgo-search-engine/

[jimfields33]

1. The more options the better

[getagrip_already]

2. personally, I'm waiting for it to be disclosed....

This is a honey pot set up, or savagely infiltrated, by some three lettered government agency.

Lets just say it wouldn't be the first time........

[MerryHolidays]

3. I used it for a bit

And then stopped.

I realized I was using Duck Duck Go on Chromebooks and Android phones. Maybe I'm too cynical, but even at the most restrictive privacy settings, I am still using Google-provided operating systems to access it.

Doesn't that defeat the purpose of Duck Duck Go? I am actually asking the question, not making a declarative statement, as I really don't know.

[Nittersing]

4. My wild ass guess

Is that your google provided OS will know that you visited DuckDuckGo, but it won't know what you actually searched.

(I'll wait for someone in know to verify (or not))

[Midnight Writer]

5. I switched to it a couple of months ago. So far, so good.