DuckDuckGo, the competitor Google which we do not talk enough, was first treated 12 million queries in one day.
If DuckDuckGo.com is so often described as anti-Google, this is because unlike the Mountain View company search engine, this start-up is not to your personal data.
Like Google, it monetizes its service through ads, but they are less targeted. The only information used by DuckDuckGo pubs to choose to display are the queries entered by users.
This anti-tracking initiative had not really been a success. But from the moment Edward Snowden reveal the secret activities of the NSA, things have improved significantly for DuckDuckGo. The number of requests has increased by 33% just after.
In June, DuckDuckGo was already 10 million queries per day. And moreover, this figure still has just increased recently since the search engine has crossed the 12 million queries per day.
DuckDuckGo statistics also show that this year, it handled 3.25 billion queries, which represents a significant 74% increase compared to the figures of the previous year.
Besides the fact that for two years, Internet users finally care about how their data are processed, DuckDuckGo also benefited from new partnerships signed with Mozilla and Apple.
Otherwise, it should be noted that although he refuses to have the same practices as Google, DuckDuckGo already making profits. And the company's CEO, Gabriel Weinberg, stop to think it is necessary to collect information about users to monetize a search engine: "You type car and you see an advertisement for a car [...]. Google follows you on all these sites because it operates huge advertising networks and other properties... so they need these data for search engines to follow you."
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