Inside DuckDuckGo, Google’s Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor
February 20th, 2014Via: Fast Company:
“Every year, we’ve grown 200-500%,” Weinberg says. “The numbers keep getting bigger.” As of early February, DuckDuckGo was seeing more than 4 million search queries per day. One year ago, that number had just barely broken 1 million.
Surprisingly, the sudden success didn’t send the site crashing down. Nor did it change the company’s stripped-down, razor-sharp focus. Here’s how one small company is slowly, surely beating its way into the most monopolized category in technology.
I love this search engine Kevin. I’ve passed it on to four people in the last 3 weeks. It is pretty sweet to do a search on a subject, topic, movie or whatever and not have it follow you around with ads. Really nice. Thank you for recommending it. For anyone curious, check out how you are tracked. Sickening. I hope DuckDuckgo figures out an email. I’d pay for something like this. Awesomes.