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DuckDuckGo

January 13, 2023

This article is about the search engine. For the children's game, see Duck, duck, goose.

DuckDuckGo (DDG) is an internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy[3] and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results.[3] DuckDuckGo does not show search results from content farms.[5] 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.[6][7] Because of its anonymity, it is impossible to know how many people use DuckDuckGo.[8]

DuckDuckGo
Screenshot of DuckDuckGo home page as of 2018
Type of site
Search engine
Available inMultilingual
Headquarters20 Paoli Pike
Paoli, Pennsylvania
Area servedWorldwide
OwnerDuck Duck Go, Inc.[1]
Created byGabriel Weinberg
URLduckduckgo.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationNone
LaunchedSeptember 25, 2008; 14 years ago (2008-09-25)[2]
Current statusActive
Written inPerl,[3] JavaScript, Python[4]

The company is based in Paoli, Pennsylvania, in Greater Philadelphia and had 200 employees as of November 2022.[9] The company name is a reference to the children's game duck, duck, goose.[10][11]

History

DuckDuckGo was founded by Gabriel Weinberg and launched on February 29, 2008, in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.[2][12] Weinberg is an entrepreneur who previously launched Names Database, a now-defunct social network. Initially self-funded by Weinberg until October 2011, it was then "backed by Union Square Ventures and a handful of angel investors."[12][13][14] 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."[12][14] In addition, Trisquel, Linux Mint, and the Midori web browser switched to use DuckDuckGo as their default search engine.[15] DuckDuckGo gains revenue via advertisements and affiliate programs.[16] The search engine is written in Perl[17] and runs on nginx, FreeBSD, and Linux.[3][2][18] DuckDuckGo is built primarily upon search APIs from various vendors. Because of this, TechCrunch characterized the service as a "hybrid" search engine.[19][20] Weinberg explained the beginnings of the name with respect to the children's game duck, duck, goose. He said of the origin of the name: "Really it just popped in my head one day and I just liked it. It is certainly influenced/derived from duck duck goose, but other than that there is no relation, e.g., a metaphor."[21] DuckDuckGo was featured on TechCrunch's Elevator Pitch Friday in 2008,[19] and it was a finalist in the 2008 BOSS Mashable Challenge.[22]

In 2010, DuckDuckGo began using privacy to differentiate itself from its competitors.[23]

In July 2010, Weinberg started a DuckDuckGo community website (duck.co) 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.[24] The company registered the domain name ddg.gg on February 22, 2011,[25] and acquired duck.com in December 2018,[26][27][28] which are used as shortened URL aliases that redirect to duckduckgo.com.

We didn't invest in it because we thought it would beat Google. We invested in it because there is a need for a private search engine. We did it for the Internet anarchists, people that hang out on Reddit and Hacker News.

— Fred Wilson, 2012 TechCrunch Disrupt Conference in New York[29]

By May 2012, the search engine was attracting 1.5 million searches a day. Weinberg reported that it had earned US$115,000 in revenue in 2011 and had three employees, plus a small number of contractors.[30] Compete.com estimated 266,465 unique visitors to the site in February 2012.[31] On April 12, 2011, Alexa reported a 3-month growth rate of 51%.[32] 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).[33] 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. The article concluded:

"Weinberg's non-ambitious goals make him a particularly odd and dangerous competitor online. 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. It's asymmetrical digital warfare, and his backers at Union Square Ventures say Google is vulnerable."[10]

GNOME released Web 3.10 on September 26, 2013, and starting with this version, the default search engine is DuckDuckGo.[34][35]

At 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.[36][37][38] 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.[39] In May 2014, DuckDuckGo released a redesigned version to beta testers through DuckDuckHack.[40] On May 21, 2014, DuckDuckGo officially released the redesigned version that focused on smarter answers and a more refined look. The new version added many new features such as images, local search, auto-suggest, weather, recipes, and more.[41]

On November 10, 2014, Mozilla added DuckDuckGo as a search option to Firefox 33.1.[42] On May 30, 2016, The Tor Project, Inc made DuckDuckGo the default search engine for Tor Browser 6.0.[43][44][45]

In July 2016, DuckDuckGo officially announced the extension of its partnership with Yahoo! that brought new features to all users of the search engine, including date filtering of results and additional site links. It also partners with Bing, Yandex, and Wikipedia to produce results or make use of features offered. The company also confirmed that it does not share user information with partner companies, as has always been its policy.[46][47]

On January 23, 2018, DuckDuckGo revamped its browser extension and mobile app in an effort to keep Internet users safe "beyond the search box". The revamped extension and app include a tool for rating websites based on their use of encryption and ad-tracking networks as well as the ability to block ad-tracking networks. The extension also provides Terms of service summaries from Terms of Service; Didn't Read.[48]

In December 2018, it was reported that Google transferred ownership of the domain name Duck.com to DuckDuckGo. It is not known what price, if any, DuckDuckGo paid for the domain name.[28]

On January 15, 2019, DuckDuckGo announced that all map and address-related searches would be powered by Apple Maps, both on desktop and mobile devices.[49]

In March 2019, Google added DuckDuckGo to the default search engine list in Chrome 73.[50]

In July 2021, DuckDuckGo introduced its email forwarding feature Email Protection, which lets users claim an "@duck.com" email address generated by the service. That inbox will receive emails and strip them of data trackers before forwarding them to the user's private email address. The feature launched in beta for users of the DuckDuckGo iOS and Android apps.[51]

As of March 2022, it had 102,704,358 daily searches on average.[52]

On March 1, 2022, in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, DuckDuckGo paused its partnership with Yandex Search.[53] On March 9, 2022, Weinberg said in a tweet that DuckDuckGo will down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation, a move which some users criticized as censorship and a violation of the search engine's commitment to "unbiased search." DuckDuckGo has defended itself from the criticism, saying that "The primary utility of a search engine is to provide access to accurate information. Disinformation sites that deliberately put out false information to intentionally mislead people directly cut against that utility."[54][55][56]

In April 2022, TorrentFreak reported that DuckDuckGo had blocked search results for some major pirating websites, including The Pirate Bay, 1337x and FMovies, as well as video downloading software Youtube-dl.[57] 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 also said that there were problems with "site:" search queries used for these websites and other searches and said that the problem had been fixed.[57]

Also in April, DuckDuckGo said that they would protect users from being tracked by Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages framework, stating: "When you load or share a Google AMP page anywhere from DuckDuckGo apps (iOS/Android/Mac) or extensions (Firefox/Chrome), the original publisher's webpage will be used in place of the Google AMP version".[58]

In May 2022, a report from Bleeping Computer by security researcher Zach Edwards found that DuckDuckGo's web browser allows Microsoft's trackers to continue running while visiting non-DuckDuckGo websites, contrary to Google and Facebook trackers, which are blocked. In response, Weinberg said that "this issue is occurring on browsers and only pertains to non-DuckDuckGo websites.", adding that "When you load our search results, you are completely anonymous, including ads", and that "Unfortunately our Microsoft search syndication agreement prevent us from doing more to Microsoft-owned properties. However, we have been continually pushing and expect to be doing more soon.", adding that "What we're talking about here is an above-and-beyond protection that most browsers don't even attempt to do — that is, blocking third-party tracking scripts before they load on 3rd party websites. Because we're doing this where we can, users are still getting significantly more privacy protection with DuckDuckGo than they would using Safari, Firefox and other browsers."[59]

Features

Search results

DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of "over 400" sources according to itself, including Bing, Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Yandex, and its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot); but none from Google.[60][3][61][62][56] It also uses data from crowdsourced sites such as Wikipedia, to populate knowledge panel boxes to the right of the search results.[62][63]

Weinberg has refined the quality of his search engine results by deleting search results for companies he believes are content mills, such as eHow, which publishes 4,000 articles per day produced by paid freelance writers, which Weinberg states to be "low-quality content designed specifically to rank highly in Google's search index". DuckDuckGo also filters pages with substantial advertising.[64]

Instant Answers

In addition to the indexed search results, DuckDuckGo displays relevant results, called instant answers, on top of the search page. These Instant Answers are collected from either third party APIs or static data sources like text files. The Instant Answers are called zeroclickinfo because the intention behind these is to provide what users are searching for on the search result page itself so that they do not have to click any results to find what they are looking for. Instant answers are created by and maintained by a community of over 1,500 open source contributors. This community has come to be known as DuckDuckHack.[65] As of July 2019, there were 1236 Instant Answers active.[66]

In the DuckDuckHack documentation, four types of Instant Answers are described: Goodies, Spices, Fatheads, and Longtails. These types of Instant Answer extensions are differentiated by how their data is retrieved. Goodies do not retrieve data from a third party API, whereas Spices do. Goodies instead use some form of the aforementioned static data sources, such as text files or JSON files. Fathead Instant Answers are key-value answers hosted on DuckDuckGo's backend. Fathead key-value pairs function similarly to a trigger for showing the respective Instant Answer. Longtail Instant Answers are full text queries to a DuckDuckGo database of articles. Paragraphs or snippets from any matching articles are returned, and the section that matches the user's query is highlighted.[67]

Tor access

In August 2010, DuckDuckGo introduced anonymous searching, including an exit enclave,[68] for its search engine traffic using Tor network and enabling access through a "Tor hidden service" (onion service).[69] 3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion  (Accessing link help)[70][71](deprecated) was the DuckDuckGo v2 onion service on Tor.[72][73][74] This allows anonymity by routing traffic through a series of encrypted relays. Weinberg stated: "I believe this fits right in line with our privacy policy. Using Tor and DDG, you can now be end to end anonymous with your searching. And if you use our encrypted homepage, you can be end to end encrypted as well."[75]

In July 2021, DuckDuckGo introduced a new v3 onion service, with a new link: duckduckgogg42xjoc72x3sjasowoarfbgcmvfimaftt6twagswzczad.onion  (Accessing link help).[76]

Bangs

DuckDuckGo includes "!Bang" keywords, which give users the ability to search on specific third-party websites – using the site's own search engine if applicable. As of August 2020, 13,564 "bangs" for a diverse range of internet sites are available.[77] In December 2018, around 2,000 "bangs" were deleted. Some of them were deleted due to being broken, while others, such as searches of pirated content sites, were deleted for liability reasons.[78]

Business model

DuckDuckGo earns revenue by serving ads from the Yahoo-Bing search alliance network and through affiliate relationships with Amazon and eBay.[79] As a privacy-focused search engine, the ads served on DuckDuckGo are based on keywords and terms of the search query.[80]

The company supports charitable organizations that work to improve privacy, In 2021 they donated US$1M to these causes and had donated $3,650,000 over the previous decade. Major donations for 2021 included $200,000 to the Center for Information Technology Policy, $150,000 to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, $75,000 to European Digital Rights (EDRi) and $75,000 to The Markup.[81]

Source code

Some of DuckDuckGo's source code is free software hosted at GitHub under the Apache 2.0 License,[82] but the core is proprietary.[83] DuckDuckGo also hosts DuckDuckHack, a sister site for organizing open source contributions and community projects. The search engine's Instant Answers are open source[84] and are maintained on GitHub, where anyone can view the source code. As of August 31, 2017, DuckDuckHack was placed on maintenance mode; as such, only pull requests for bug fixes will be approved.[65]

Reception

In a June 2011 article, Harry McCracken of Time commended DuckDuckGo, comparing it to his favorite hamburger restaurant, In-N-Out Burger:

It feels a lot like early Google, with a stripped-down home page. Just as In-N-Out doesn't have lattes or Asian salads or sundaes or scrambled eggs, DDG doesn't try to do news or blogs or books or images. There's no auto-completion or instant results. It just offers core Web search—mostly the "ten blue links" approach that's still really useful, no matter what its critics say ... As for the quality, I'm not saying that Weinberg has figured out a way to return more relevant results than Google's mighty search team. But DuckDuckGo ... is really good at bringing back useful sites. It all feels meaty and straightforward and filler-free ...[85]

The bare-bones approach cited in his quote has since changed; for instance, DuckDuckGo now has auto-completion, instant results, and a news tab. McCracken included the site in Time's list of "50 Best Websites of 2011."[86]

Thom Holwerda, who reviewed the search engine for OSNews, praised its privacy features and shortcuts to site-specific searches as well as criticizing Google for "track[ing] pretty much everything you do", particularly because of the risk of such information being subject to a U.S. government subpoena.[87] In 2012, in response to accusations that it was a monopoly, Google identified DuckDuckGo as a competitor. Weinberg was reportedly "pleased and entertained" by that acknowledgment.[10]

In November 2019, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey revealed his preference for using the DuckDuckGo search engine rather than Google, stating, "I love @DuckDuckGo. My default search engine for a while now. The app is even better!".[88] Conservative political commentators Ben Shapiro and Dan Bongino have also endorsed DuckDuckGo.[89]

Traffic

 
Traffic chart

In June 2013, DuckDuckGo indicated that it had seen a significant traffic increase; according to the company's Twitter account, on Monday, June 17, 2013, it had three million daily direct searches. On average during May 2013, it had 1.8 million daily direct searches. Some[90] relate this claim to the exposure of PRISM and to the fact that other programs operated by the National Security Agency (NSA) were leaked by Edward Snowden. Danny Sullivan wrote on Search Engine Land that despite the search engine's growth "it's not grown anywhere near the amount to reflect any substantial or even mildly notable switching by the searching public" for reasons due to privacy, and he concluded "No One Cares About "Private" Search".[91] In response, Caleb Garling of the San Francisco Chronicle argued: "I think this thesis suffers from a few key failures in logic" because a traffic increase had occurred and because there was a lack of widespread awareness of the existence of DuckDuckGo.[92]

Later in September 2013, the search engine hit 4 million searches per day[93][94][95] and in June 2015, it hit 10 million searches per day.[2] In November 2017, DuckDuckGo hit 20 million searches per day.[2] In January 2019, DuckDuckGo set a record of 1 billion monthly searches;[96] and in November of the same year, it hit 50 million searches per day. As of March 2022, DuckDuckGo was receiving 102,704,358 queries per day on average.[52] On January 11, 2021, a record of over 102.2 million daily searches was achieved.[97] A new record of 111,703,299 daily searches was set on 17 January 2022.[52] During the year of 2022, DuckDuckGo experienced stagnation and slight downfall when it comes to the number of searches per month.[98] At the end of the year 2022 they removed their traffic stats page.

Internal surveys by DuckDuckGo found that users of DuckDuckGo had a wide variety of political leanings.[89]

DuckDuckGo Private Browser

DuckDuckGo Private Browser is a privacy-oriented web browser available for iOS and Android, it uses WebView (Blink) on Android and WebKit on iOS. DuckDuckGo Private Browser automatically blocks web trackers and upgrades insecure HTTP connections to HTTPS. The Android version has a feature called App Tracking Protection, which when enabled blocks trackers in other Android applications.[99][100] DuckDuckGo Private Browser is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.[101]

In April 2022, DuckDuckGo released DuckDuckGo for Mac to beta, a privacy-oriented desktop browser which automatically blocks both web trackers and cookie consent pop-ups.[102][103] 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. Beah Burger-Lenehan, product manager for the Mac app stated: "We are building everything else from scratch. So beyond rendering, all the code is ours – written by DuckDuckGo engineers with privacy, security, and simplicity front of mind. This means we don't have the cruft and clutter that has accumulated in browsers over the years, both in code and design, giving you a modern look and feel and a faster speed."[104]

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This article is about the search engine For the children s game see Duck duck goose DuckDuckGo DDG is an internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers privacy 3 and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results 3 DuckDuckGo does not show search results from content farms 5 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 6 7 Because of its anonymity it is impossible to know how many people use DuckDuckGo 8 DuckDuckGoScreenshot of DuckDuckGo home page as of 2018Type of siteSearch engineAvailable inMultilingualHeadquarters20 Paoli PikePaoli PennsylvaniaArea servedWorldwideOwnerDuck Duck Go Inc 1 Created byGabriel WeinbergURLduckduckgo wbr comCommercialYesRegistrationNoneLaunchedSeptember 25 2008 14 years ago 2008 09 25 2 Current statusActiveWritten inPerl 3 JavaScript Python 4 The company is based in Paoli Pennsylvania in Greater Philadelphia and had 200 employees as of November 2022 update 9 The company name is a reference to the children s game duck duck goose 10 11 Contents 1 History 2 Features 2 1 Search results 2 2 Instant Answers 2 3 Tor access 2 4 Bangs 3 Business model 4 Source code 5 Reception 6 Traffic 7 DuckDuckGo Private Browser 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksHistory EditDuckDuckGo was founded by Gabriel Weinberg and launched on February 29 2008 in Valley Forge Pennsylvania 2 12 Weinberg is an entrepreneur who previously launched Names Database a now defunct social network Initially self funded by Weinberg until October 2011 it was then backed by Union Square Ventures and a handful of angel investors 12 13 14 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 12 14 In addition Trisquel Linux Mint and the Midori web browser switched to use DuckDuckGo as their default search engine 15 DuckDuckGo gains revenue via advertisements and affiliate programs 16 The search engine is written in Perl 17 and runs on nginx FreeBSD and Linux 3 2 18 DuckDuckGo is built primarily upon search APIs from various vendors Because of this TechCrunch characterized the service as a hybrid search engine 19 20 Weinberg explained the beginnings of the name with respect to the children s game duck duck goose He said of the origin of the name Really it just popped in my head one day and I just liked it It is certainly influenced derived from duck duck goose but other than that there is no relation e g a metaphor 21 DuckDuckGo was featured on TechCrunch s Elevator Pitch Friday in 2008 19 and it was a finalist in the 2008 BOSS Mashable Challenge 22 In 2010 DuckDuckGo began using privacy to differentiate itself from its competitors 23 In July 2010 Weinberg started a DuckDuckGo community website duck co 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 24 The company registered the domain name ddg gg on February 22 2011 25 and acquired duck com in December 2018 26 27 28 which are used as shortened URL aliases that redirect to duckduckgo com We didn t invest in it because we thought it would beat Google We invested in it because there is a need for a private search engine We did it for the Internet anarchists people that hang out on Reddit and Hacker News Fred Wilson 2012 TechCrunch Disrupt Conference in New York 29 By May 2012 the search engine was attracting 1 5 million searches a day Weinberg reported that it had earned US 115 000 in revenue in 2011 and had three employees plus a small number of contractors 30 Compete com estimated 266 465 unique visitors to the site in February 2012 31 On April 12 2011 Alexa reported a 3 month growth rate of 51 32 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 33 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 The article concluded Weinberg s non ambitious goals make him a particularly odd and dangerous competitor online 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 It s asymmetrical digital warfare and his backers at Union Square Ventures say Google is vulnerable 10 GNOME released Web 3 10 on September 26 2013 and starting with this version the default search engine is DuckDuckGo 34 35 At 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 36 37 38 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 39 In May 2014 DuckDuckGo released a redesigned version to beta testers through DuckDuckHack 40 On May 21 2014 DuckDuckGo officially released the redesigned version that focused on smarter answers and a more refined look The new version added many new features such as images local search auto suggest weather recipes and more 41 On November 10 2014 Mozilla added DuckDuckGo as a search option to Firefox 33 1 42 On May 30 2016 The Tor Project Inc made DuckDuckGo the default search engine for Tor Browser 6 0 43 44 45 In July 2016 DuckDuckGo officially announced the extension of its partnership with Yahoo that brought new features to all users of the search engine including date filtering of results and additional site links It also partners with Bing Yandex and Wikipedia to produce results or make use of features offered The company also confirmed that it does not share user information with partner companies as has always been its policy 46 47 On January 23 2018 DuckDuckGo revamped its browser extension and mobile app in an effort to keep Internet users safe beyond the search box The revamped extension and app include a tool for rating websites based on their use of encryption and ad tracking networks as well as the ability to block ad tracking networks The extension also provides Terms of service summaries from Terms of Service Didn t Read 48 In December 2018 it was reported that Google transferred ownership of the domain name Duck com to DuckDuckGo It is not known what price if any DuckDuckGo paid for the domain name 28 On January 15 2019 DuckDuckGo announced that all map and address related searches would be powered by Apple Maps both on desktop and mobile devices 49 In March 2019 Google added DuckDuckGo to the default search engine list in Chrome 73 50 In July 2021 DuckDuckGo introduced its email forwarding feature Email Protection which lets users claim an duck com email address generated by the service That inbox will receive emails and strip them of data trackers before forwarding them to the user s private email address The feature launched in beta for users of the DuckDuckGo iOS and Android apps 51 As of March 2022 update it had 102 704 358 daily searches on average 52 On March 1 2022 in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine DuckDuckGo paused its partnership with Yandex Search 53 On March 9 2022 Weinberg said in a tweet that DuckDuckGo will down rank sites associated with Russian disinformation a move which some users criticized as censorship and a violation of the search engine s commitment to unbiased search DuckDuckGo has defended itself from the criticism saying that The primary utility of a search engine is to provide access to accurate information Disinformation sites that deliberately put out false information to intentionally mislead people directly cut against that utility 54 55 56 In April 2022 TorrentFreak reported that DuckDuckGo had blocked search results for some major pirating websites including The Pirate Bay 1337x and FMovies as well as video downloading software Youtube dl 57 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 also said that there were problems with site search queries used for these websites and other searches and said that the problem had been fixed 57 Also in April DuckDuckGo said that they would protect users from being tracked by Google s Accelerated Mobile Pages framework stating When you load or share a Google AMP page anywhere from DuckDuckGo apps iOS Android Mac or extensions Firefox Chrome the original publisher s webpage will be used in place of the Google AMP version 58 In May 2022 a report from Bleeping Computer by security researcher Zach Edwards found that DuckDuckGo s web browser allows Microsoft s trackers to continue running while visiting non DuckDuckGo websites contrary to Google and Facebook trackers which are blocked In response Weinberg said that this issue is occurring on browsers and only pertains to non DuckDuckGo websites adding that When you load our search results you are completely anonymous including ads and that Unfortunately our Microsoft search syndication agreement prevent us from doing more to Microsoft owned properties However we have been continually pushing and expect to be doing more soon adding that What we re talking about here is an above and beyond protection that most browsers don t even attempt to do that is blocking third party tracking scripts before they load on 3rd party websites Because we re doing this where we can users are still getting significantly more privacy protection with DuckDuckGo than they would using Safari Firefox and other browsers 59 Features EditSearch results Edit DuckDuckGo s results are a compilation of over 400 sources according to itself including Bing Yahoo Search BOSS Wolfram Alpha Yandex and its own web crawler the DuckDuckBot but none from Google 60 3 61 62 56 It also uses data from crowdsourced sites such as Wikipedia to populate knowledge panel boxes to the right of the search results 62 63 Weinberg has refined the quality of his search engine results by deleting search results for companies he believes are content mills such as eHow which publishes 4 000 articles per day produced by paid freelance writers which Weinberg states to be low quality content designed specifically to rank highly in Google s search index DuckDuckGo also filters pages with substantial advertising 64 Instant Answers Edit In addition to the indexed search results DuckDuckGo displays relevant results called instant answers on top of the search page These Instant Answers are collected from either third party APIs or static data sources like text files The Instant Answers are called zeroclickinfo because the intention behind these is to provide what users are searching for on the search result page itself so that they do not have to click any results to find what they are looking for Instant answers are created by and maintained by a community of over 1 500 open source contributors This community has come to be known as DuckDuckHack 65 As of July 2019 update there were 1236 Instant Answers active 66 In the DuckDuckHack documentation four types of Instant Answers are described Goodies Spices Fatheads and Longtails These types of Instant Answer extensions are differentiated by how their data is retrieved Goodies do not retrieve data from a third party API whereas Spices do Goodies instead use some form of the aforementioned static data sources such as text files or JSON files Fathead Instant Answers are key value answers hosted on DuckDuckGo s backend Fathead key value pairs function similarly to a trigger for showing the respective Instant Answer Longtail Instant Answers are full text queries to a DuckDuckGo database of articles Paragraphs or snippets from any matching articles are returned and the section that matches the user s query is highlighted 67 Tor access Edit In August 2010 DuckDuckGo introduced anonymous searching including an exit enclave 68 for its search engine traffic using Tor network and enabling access through a Tor hidden service onion service 69 3g2upl4pq6kufc4m onion Accessing link help 70 71 deprecated was the DuckDuckGo v2 onion service on Tor 72 73 74 This allows anonymity by routing traffic through a series of encrypted relays Weinberg stated I believe this fits right in line with our privacy policy Using Tor and DDG you can now be end to end anonymous with your searching And if you use our encrypted homepage you can be end to end encrypted as well 75 In July 2021 DuckDuckGo introduced a new v3 onion service with a new link duckduckgogg42xjoc72x3sjasowoarfbgcmvfimaftt6twagswzczad onion Accessing link help 76 Bangs Edit DuckDuckGo includes Bang keywords which give users the ability to search on specific third party websites using the site s own search engine if applicable As of August 2020 13 564 bangs for a diverse range of internet sites are available 77 In December 2018 around 2 000 bangs were deleted Some of them were deleted due to being broken while others such as searches of pirated content sites were deleted for liability reasons 78 Business model EditDuckDuckGo earns revenue by serving ads from the Yahoo Bing search alliance network and through affiliate relationships with Amazon and eBay 79 As a privacy focused search engine the ads served on DuckDuckGo are based on keywords and terms of the search query 80 The company supports charitable organizations that work to improve privacy In 2021 they donated US 1M to these causes and had donated 3 650 000 over the previous decade Major donations for 2021 included 200 000 to the Center for Information Technology Policy 150 000 to the Electronic Frontier Foundation 75 000 to European Digital Rights EDRi and 75 000 to The Markup 81 Source code EditSome of DuckDuckGo s source code is free software hosted at GitHub under the Apache 2 0 License 82 but the core is proprietary 83 DuckDuckGo also hosts DuckDuckHack a sister site for organizing open source contributions and community projects The search engine s Instant Answers are open source 84 and are maintained on GitHub where anyone can view the source code As of August 31 2017 DuckDuckHack was placed on maintenance mode as such only pull requests for bug fixes will be approved 65 Reception EditIn a June 2011 article Harry McCracken of Time commended DuckDuckGo comparing it to his favorite hamburger restaurant In N Out Burger It feels a lot like early Google with a stripped down home page Just as In N Out doesn t have lattes or Asian salads or sundaes or scrambled eggs DDG doesn t try to do news or blogs or books or images There s no auto completion or instant results It just offers core Web search mostly the ten blue links approach that s still really useful no matter what its critics say As for the quality I m not saying that Weinberg has figured out a way to return more relevant results than Google s mighty search team But DuckDuckGo is really good at bringing back useful sites It all feels meaty and straightforward and filler free 85 The bare bones approach cited in his quote has since changed for instance DuckDuckGo now has auto completion instant results and a news tab McCracken included the site in Time s list of 50 Best Websites of 2011 86 Thom Holwerda who reviewed the search engine for OSNews praised its privacy features and shortcuts to site specific searches as well as criticizing Google for track ing pretty much everything you do particularly because of the risk of such information being subject to a U S government subpoena 87 In 2012 in response to accusations that it was a monopoly Google identified DuckDuckGo as a competitor Weinberg was reportedly pleased and entertained by that acknowledgment 10 In November 2019 Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey revealed his preference for using the DuckDuckGo search engine rather than Google stating I love DuckDuckGo My default search engine for a while now The app is even better 88 Conservative political commentators Ben Shapiro and Dan Bongino have also endorsed DuckDuckGo 89 Traffic Edit Traffic chart In June 2013 DuckDuckGo indicated that it had seen a significant traffic increase according to the company s Twitter account on Monday June 17 2013 it had three million daily direct searches On average during May 2013 it had 1 8 million daily direct searches Some 90 relate this claim to the exposure of PRISM and to the fact that other programs operated by the National Security Agency NSA were leaked by Edward Snowden Danny Sullivan wrote on Search Engine Land that despite the search engine s growth it s not grown anywhere near the amount to reflect any substantial or even mildly notable switching by the searching public for reasons due to privacy and he concluded No One Cares About Private Search 91 In response Caleb Garling of the San Francisco Chronicle argued I think this thesis suffers from a few key failures in logic because a traffic increase had occurred and because there was a lack of widespread awareness of the existence of DuckDuckGo 92 Later in September 2013 the search engine hit 4 million searches per day 93 94 95 and in June 2015 it hit 10 million searches per day 2 In November 2017 DuckDuckGo hit 20 million searches per day 2 In January 2019 DuckDuckGo set a record of 1 billion monthly searches 96 and in November of the same year it hit 50 million searches per day As of March 2022 update DuckDuckGo was receiving 102 704 358 queries per day on average 52 On January 11 2021 a record of over 102 2 million daily searches was achieved 97 A new record of 111 703 299 daily searches was set on 17 January 2022 52 During the year of 2022 DuckDuckGo experienced stagnation and slight downfall when it comes to the number of searches per month 98 At the end of the year 2022 they removed their traffic stats page Internal surveys by DuckDuckGo found that users of DuckDuckGo had a wide variety of political leanings 89 DuckDuckGo Private Browser EditDuckDuckGo Private Browser is a privacy oriented web browser available for iOS and Android it uses WebView Blink on Android and WebKit on iOS DuckDuckGo Private Browser automatically blocks web trackers and upgrades insecure HTTP connections to HTTPS The Android version has a feature called App Tracking Protection which when enabled blocks trackers in other Android applications 99 100 DuckDuckGo Private Browser is licensed under the Apache 2 0 license 101 In April 2022 DuckDuckGo released DuckDuckGo for Mac to beta a privacy oriented desktop browser which automatically blocks both web trackers and cookie consent pop ups 102 103 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 Beah Burger Lenehan product manager for the Mac app stated We are building everything else from scratch So beyond rendering all the code is ours written by DuckDuckGo engineers with privacy security and simplicity front of mind This means we don t have the cruft and clutter that has accumulated in browsers over the years both in code and design giving you a modern look and feel and a faster speed 104 See also Edit Companies portal Internet portal Pennsylvania portalComparison of web search engines List of search engines Names Database Timeline of web search enginesReferences Edit Duck Duck Go Inc Private Company Information Bloomberg L P Retrieved May 2 2017 a b c d e About DuckDuckGo DuckDuckGo Retrieved January 30 2020 a b c d e Buys Jon July 10 2010 DuckDuckGo A New Search Engine Built from Open Source GigaOM OStatic blog Archived from the original on March 17 2011 Retrieved March 19 2013 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Challenge Mashable Retrieved March 19 2013 Morrison Sara March 16 2022 The free speech search engine that never was Vox Retrieved March 19 2022 Weinberg Gabriel July 2010 duck co The DuckDuckGo Community Retrieved July 21 2010 Ddg gg WHOIS DNS amp Domain Info DomainTools whois domaintools com Retrieved April 13 2019 Confirmed Duck com Transfers to DuckDuckGo NamePros DuckDuckGo Privacy simplified duck com Archived from the original on December 11 2018 Retrieved January 11 2022 a b Porter Jon December 12 2018 Google relents and transfers Duck com to DuckDuckGo The Verge Retrieved December 12 2018 Ludwig Sean May 21 2012 Fred Wilson We invested in DuckDuckGo for the Reddit Hacker News anarchists VentureBeat Retrieved January 29 2013 Farivar Cyrus May 16 2012 Private some search engines make money by not tracking users Ars Technica Retrieved May 14 2012 duckduckgo com 266 465 0 UVs for February 2012 Compete March 24 2012 Archived from the original on March 24 2012 Retrieved November 12 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by default TechCrunch Retrieved September 25 2017 Southern Matt June 1 2016 DuckDuckGo Becomes Default Search Provider for Tor Browser Search Engine Journal Retrieved September 25 2017 Tor Browser 6 0 is released Tor Project Blog May 30 2016 Retrieved September 25 2017 Brinkmann Martin July 1 2016 DuckDuckGo extends Yahoo partnership gHacks DuckDuckGo is using yahoo for searches now May 28 2016 Privacy focused search engine DuckDuckGo wants to keep you safe around the web The Verge Retrieved November 12 2018 DuckDuckGo Taps Apple Maps to Power Private Search Results Spread Privacy DuckDuckGo Blog January 15 2019 Retrieved January 16 2019 Zhou Marrian March 14 2019 DuckDuckGo is now a default search engine option in Chrome CNET Retrieved March 16 2019 Gershgorn Dave July 20 2021 DuckDuckGo launches new Email Protection service to remove trackers The Verge Retrieved July 20 2021 a b c DuckDuckGo Traffic DuckDuckGo Archived from the original on July 25 2022 Retrieved August 16 2022 Brody Ben March 1 2022 DuckDuckGo pauses its relationship with Russian search engine Yandex Protocol Retrieved March 3 2022 Gabriel Weinberg yegg March 10 2022 StandWithUkraine At DuckDuckGo we ve been rolling out search updates that down rank sites associated with Russian disinformation 1 4 Tweet via Twitter Kan Michael March 10 2022 DuckDuckGo to Down Rank Sites Associated With Russian Disinformation PCMag Retrieved March 11 2022 a b Thomson Stewart A March 11 2022 The far right complains after the search engine DuckDuckGo vows to limit Russian propaganda The New York Times Retrieved March 13 2022 a b Fingas Jon April 15 2022 DuckDuckGo reportedly removes search results for major pirate websites updated Engadget Retrieved April 18 2022 Lyons Kim April 20 2022 DuckDuckGo s browsers and extensions now protect against AMP tracking The Verge Retrieved April 24 2022 Adorno Jose May 25 2022 DuckDuckGo caught giving Microsoft permission for trackers despite strong privacy reputation 9to5Mac Retrieved May 25 2022 Sources DuckDuckGo Help Pages DuckDuckGo Support Center July 22 2018 Retrieved July 22 2018 Wolfram Alpha and DuckDuckGo Partner on API Binding and Search Integration WolframAlpha blog April 18 2011 a b Hollingsworth Sam April 12 2019 DuckDuckGo vs Google An In Depth Search Engine Comparison Search Engine Journal Retrieved April 12 2019 Reader Ruth June 11 2014 DuckDuckGo amp Yummly team up so you can search food porn in private VentureBeat Retrieved June 11 2014 Mims Christopher July 26 2010 The Search Engine Backlash Against Content Mills Technology Review Retrieved March 19 2013 a b DuckDuckHack DuckDuckHack Retrieved October 29 2020 DuckDuckGo Instant Answers Retrieved July 7 2019 What Type of Instant Answer DuckDuckHack Docs Retrieved October 29 2020 Burgess Matt February 1 2017 DuckDuckGo what is it and how does it work Wired UK ISSN 1357 0978 Retrieved February 24 2021 DuckDuckGo operates a so called Tor exit enclave which means you can get end to end anonymous and encrypted searching No Tracking DuckDuckGo Help Pages January 22 2021 Archived from the original on January 22 2021 Retrieved February 24 2021 DuckDuckGo does not store any personal information e g IP addresses or user agents see our privacy policy for details In addition to our default version we also offer two non JavaScript versions HTML amp lite a Tor hidden service several privacy settings including POST amp RefControl and we allow you to use URL parameters instead of cookies for our Cloud Save feature to store settings duckduckgo tor html duckduckgo com Retrieved March 11 2021 DuckDuckGo August 22 2018 Hi there Yes our onion address is 3g2upl4pq6kufc4m onion For verification you can also search for duckduckgo onion or duckduckgo tor and a direct link will be shown e g duckduckgo com q duckduckgo tor amp ia answer Tweet Retrieved March 11 2021 via Twitter https everywhere 3g2upl4pq6kufc4m onion ruleset EFForg GitHub Retrieved February 24 2021 This ruleset covers 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2019 Friedman Alan January 18 2021 DuckDuckGo handles over 102 2 million search requests in one day for a new company record phonearena com Retrieved January 19 2021 DuckDuckGo Search Traffic DuckDuckGo November 18 2022 Retrieved December 24 2022 Weatherbed Jess November 16 2022 DuckDuckGo has opened up its App Tracking Protection beta The Verge Retrieved January 13 2023 Introducing DuckDuckGo App Tracking Protection for Android Spread Privacy November 18 2021 Retrieved January 13 2023 DuckDuckGo Android DuckDuckGo January 13 2023 retrieved January 13 2023 Matt Burgess April 12 2022 DuckDuckGo s Privacy Browser Finally Lands on Desktop Wired Conde Nast Archived from the original on April 12 2022 Retrieved April 13 2022 Emma Roth April 12 2022 DuckDuckGo s privacy centric browser arrives on Mac The Verge Archived from the original on April 12 2022 Retrieved April 13 2022 Introducing DuckDuckGo for Mac A Private Fast and Secure Browsing App Spread Privacy DuckDuckGo Blog April 12 2022 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