![]() ![]() ![]() This year it expanded from its core search product to launch a tracker blocker to address wider privacy concerns consumers have by helping web users keep more of their online activity away from companies trying to spy on them for profit. ![]() It does not break out active user metrics but earlier this year cited third party estimates which peg its user-base at around 25M. Instead it displays ads based on the keyword being searched for at the point of each search - dispensing with the need to follow people around the web, harvesting data on everything they do to feed a sophisticated adtech business, as Google does.ĭDG says it has been profitable using its non-tracking business model since 2014, also making money from affiliate revenue. “We are growing everywhere though it is a bit more in the US in the past few months,” he adds.ĭDG’s search engine offers a pro-privacy alternative to Google search that does not track and profile users in order to target them with ads. “That said it has been even increased on top of that this year, especially in the past two months. “We’ve been growing by approximately 50% a year pretty consistently so at a macro level it isn’t too surprising, just the numbers are getting bigger!” founder Gabriel Weinberg tells TechCrunch. DuckDuckGo fun fact: it took us seven years to reach 10 million private searches in one day, then another two years to hit 20 million, and now less than a year later we're at 30 million! Thank you all □ #ComeToTheDuckSide Īlbeit 30M daily searches is still a drop in the ocean vs the at least 3BN+ daily searches that Google handles daily (at least because that metric dates back to 2015). ![]()
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