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Available in 59 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-59" aria-hidden="true" > 59 languages </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-af mw-list-item"><a href="https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Afrikaans" lang="af" hreflang="af" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Afrikaans" data-language-local-name="Afrikaans" class="interlanguage-link-target">Afrikaans</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%83_%D8%AF%D9%83_%D8%BA%D9%88" title="دك دك غو – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="دك دك غو" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ban mw-list-item"><a href="https://ban.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Balinese" lang="ban" hreflang="ban" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Basa Bali" data-language-local-name="Balinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Basa Bali</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%8B" title="ডাকডাকগো – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="ডাকডাকগো" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target">閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B" title="डकडकगो – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="डकडकगो" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target">भोजपुरी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%D8%AF%D8%A7%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%DA%AF%D9%88" title="داک‌داک‌گو – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="داک‌داک‌گو" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8D%95%EB%8D%95%EA%B3%A0" title="덕덕고 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="덕덕고" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B" title="डकडकगो – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="डकडकगो" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">हिन्दी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ido</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%A7%D7%93%D7%A7%D7%92%D7%95" title="דקדקגו – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="דקדקגו" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%95%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%97%E0%B3%8A" title="ಡಕ್ಡಕ್ಗೊ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಡಕ್ಡಕ್ಗೊ" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target">ಕನ್ನಡ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ln mw-list-item"><a href="https://ln.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Lingala" lang="ln" hreflang="ln" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Lingála" data-language-local-name="Lingala" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lingála</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Македонски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%8B" title="ഡക്ഡക്ഗോ – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ഡക്ഡക്ഗോ" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target">മലയാളം</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%83_%D8%AF%D9%83_%D8%AC%D9%88" title="دك دك جو – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="دك دك جو" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8B" title="डकडकगो – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="डकडकगो" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target">नेपाली</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pap mw-list-item"><a href="https://pap.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo" title="DuckDuckGo – Papiamento" lang="pap" hreflang="pap" data-title="DuckDuckGo" data-language-autonym="Papiamentu" data-language-local-name="Papiamento" class="interlanguage-link-target">Papiamentu</a></li><li 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line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Type of site</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Search_engine" title="Search engine">Search engine</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Available in</th><td class="infobox-data">Multilingual</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label">20 Paoli Pike, <a href="/wiki/Paoli,_Pennsylvania" title="Paoli, Pennsylvania">Paoli, Pennsylvania</a>, United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Area served</th><td class="infobox-data">Worldwide, except for Indonesia<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner</th><td class="infobox-data">Duck Duck Go, Inc.<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Organizational_founder" title="Organizational founder">Founder(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Gabriel Weinberg</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">CEO</th><td class="infobox-data">Gabriel Weinberg</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Key people</th><td class="infobox-data">Steve Fishcher (<a href="/wiki/Chief_business_officer" title="Chief business officer">CBO</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">URL</th><td class="infobox-data url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://duckduckgo.com">duckduckgo.com</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Commercial</th><td class="infobox-data">Yes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Registration</th><td class="infobox-data">None</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Launched</th><td class="infobox-data">September 25, 2008; 16 years ago (2008-09-25)<a href="#cite_note-About-3">[3]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Current status</th><td class="infobox-data category">Active</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Written in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Perl" title="Perl">Perl</a>,<a href="#cite_note-Buys-4">[4]</a> <a href="/wiki/JavaScript" title="JavaScript">JavaScript</a>, <a href="/wiki/Python_(programming_language)" title="Python (programming language)">Python</a><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></td></tr></tbody></table> DuckDuckGo is an American <a href="/wiki/Software_company" title="Software company">software company</a> focused on <a href="/wiki/Internet_privacy" title="Internet privacy">online privacy</a>, whose <a href="/wiki/Flagship_product" class="mw-redirect" title="Flagship product">flagship product</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Search_engine" title="Search engine">search engine</a> of the same name. Founded by Gabriel Weinberg in 2008, its later products include <a href="/wiki/Browser_extension" title="Browser extension">browser extensions</a><a href="#cite_note-extensions-6">[6]</a> and a <a href="/wiki/DuckDuckGo_Private_Browser" title="DuckDuckGo Private Browser">custom DuckDuckGo web browser</a>.<a href="#cite_note-private_browser-7">[7]</a> Headquartered in <a href="/wiki/Paoli,_Pennsylvania" title="Paoli, Pennsylvania">Paoli, Pennsylvania</a>, DuckDuckGo is a <a href="/wiki/Privately_held_company" title="Privately held company">privately held company</a> with about 200 employees.<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> The company's name is a reference to the children's game <a href="/wiki/Duck,_duck,_goose" title="Duck, duck, goose">duck, duck, goose</a>.<a href="#cite_note-WashPostNov2012-9">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=DuckDuckGo&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_years">Early years</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=DuckDuckGo&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early years">edit</a>]</div> DuckDuckGo was founded by Gabriel Weinberg and launched on February 29, 2008, in <a href="/wiki/Valley_Forge,_Pennsylvania" title="Valley Forge, Pennsylvania">Valley Forge, Pennsylvania</a>.<a href="#cite_note-About-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-History-11">[11]</a> Weinberg is an entrepreneur who previously launched <a href="/wiki/Names_Database" title="Names Database">Names Database</a>, a now-defunct social network. Self-funded by Weinberg until October 2011, DuckDuckGo was then "backed by <a href="/wiki/Union_Square_Ventures" title="Union Square Ventures">Union Square Ventures</a> and a handful of <a href="/wiki/Angel_investor" title="Angel investor">angel investors</a>."<a href="#cite_note-History-11">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a><a href="#cite_note-Burnham13Oct11-13">[13]</a> 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."<a href="#cite_note-History-11">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-Burnham13Oct11-13">[13]</a> In addition, <a href="/wiki/Trisquel" title="Trisquel">Trisquel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Linux_Mint" title="Linux Mint">Linux Mint</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Midori_(web_browser)" title="Midori (web browser)">Midori</a> <a href="/wiki/Web_browser" title="Web browser">web browser</a> switched to use DuckDuckGo as their default search engine.<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> DuckDuckGo gains revenue via advertisements and affiliate programs.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Search_engine" title="Search engine">search engine</a> is written in <a href="/wiki/Perl" title="Perl">Perl</a><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> and runs on <a href="/wiki/Nginx" title="Nginx">nginx</a>, <a href="/wiki/FreeBSD" title="FreeBSD">FreeBSD</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Buys-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-About-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> DuckDuckGo is built primarily upon search <a href="/wiki/API" title="API">APIs</a> from various vendors. Because of this, <a href="/wiki/TechCrunch" title="TechCrunch">TechCrunch</a> characterized the service as a "hybrid" search engine.<a href="#cite_note-TCFriday-18">[18]</a><a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> 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."<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> DuckDuckGo was featured on TechCrunch's <a href="/wiki/Elevator_pitch" title="Elevator pitch">Elevator Pitch</a> Friday in 2008,<a href="#cite_note-TCFriday-18">[18]</a> and it was a finalist in the 2008 <a href="/wiki/Yahoo!_Search_BOSS" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo! Search BOSS">BOSS</a> <a href="/wiki/Mashable" title="Mashable">Mashable</a> Challenge.<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> In 2010, DuckDuckGo began using privacy to differentiate itself from its competitors.<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Open-sourcing" class="mw-redirect" title="Open-sourcing">open sourcing</a> the code.<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> The company registered the <a href="/wiki/Domain_name" title="Domain name">domain name</a> ddg<a href="/wiki/.gg" title=".gg">.gg</a> on February 22, 2011,<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> and acquired duck.com in December 2018,<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a><a href="#cite_note-duck.com-27">[27]</a> which are used as shortened URL aliases that redirect to duckduckgo.com, and is also used as the domain for their e-mail protection service.<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a><a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a><a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Growth_in_the_2010s">Growth in the 2010s</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=DuckDuckGo&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Growth in the 2010s">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:30%; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> 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 <a href="/wiki/Reddit" title="Reddit">Reddit</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hacker_News" title="Hacker News">Hacker News</a>. </blockquote> <cite class="left-aligned" style="">— <a href="/wiki/Fred_Wilson_(financier)" title="Fred Wilson (financier)">Fred Wilson</a>, 2012 <a href="/wiki/TechCrunch_Disrupt" class="mw-redirect" title="TechCrunch Disrupt">TechCrunch Disrupt</a> Conference in New York<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a></cite> </div> 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.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> <a href="/wiki/Compete.com" title="Compete.com">Compete.com</a> estimated 266,465 unique visitors to the site in February 2012.<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> On April 12, 2011, <a href="/wiki/Alexa_Internet" title="Alexa Internet">Alexa</a> reported a 3-month growth rate of 51%.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> DuckDuckGo's own <a href="/wiki/Traffic_statistics" class="mw-redirect" title="Traffic statistics">traffic statistics</a> 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).<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> In a lengthy profile in November 2012, <a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a> indicated that searches on DuckDuckGo numbered up to 45,000,000 per month in October 2012. The article concluded:<blockquote> "Weinberg's non-ambitious goals make him a particularly odd and dangerous competitor online. He can do almost everything that <a href="/wiki/Google_Search" title="Google Search">Google</a> or <a href="/wiki/Bing_(search_engine)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bing (search engine)">Bing</a> 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."<a href="#cite_note-WashPostNov2012-9">[9]</a> </blockquote> <a href="/wiki/GNOME" title="GNOME">GNOME</a> released <a href="/wiki/GNOME_Web" title="GNOME Web">Web</a> 3.10 on September 26, 2013, and starting with this version, the default search engine is DuckDuckGo.<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a><a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/IOS_8" title="IOS 8">iOS 8</a> and <a href="/wiki/OS_X_Yosemite" title="OS X Yosemite">OS X Yosemite</a> in its <a href="/wiki/Safari_(web_browser)" title="Safari (web browser)">Safari</a> browser.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a><a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a><a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> On March 10, the <a href="/wiki/Pale_Moon" title="Pale Moon">Pale Moon</a> 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.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a> In May 2014, DuckDuckGo released a redesigned version to beta testers through DuckDuckHack.<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> 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, <a href="/wiki/Local_search_(Internet)" title="Local search (Internet)">local search</a>, auto-suggest, weather, recipes, and more.<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> On November 10, 2014, <a href="/wiki/Mozilla" title="Mozilla">Mozilla</a> added DuckDuckGo as a search option to <a href="/wiki/Firefox_33" class="mw-redirect" title="Firefox 33">Firefox 33.1</a>.<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> On May 30, 2016, <a href="/wiki/The_Tor_Project" title="The Tor Project">The Tor Project, Inc</a> made DuckDuckGo the default search engine for <a href="/wiki/Tor_(network)#Tor_Browser" title="Tor (network)">Tor Browser</a> 6.0.<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a><a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a><a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> In July 2016, DuckDuckGo officially announced the extension of its partnership with <a href="/wiki/Yahoo!_Search" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo! Search">Yahoo!</a> that brought new features to all users of the search engine, including date filtering of results and additional site links. It also partners with <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Bing" title="Microsoft Bing">Bing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yandex" title="Yandex">Yandex</a>, 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.<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a><a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> 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.<a href="#cite_note-duck.com-27">[27]</a> On January 15, 2019, DuckDuckGo announced that all map and address-related searches would be powered by <a href="/wiki/Apple_Maps" title="Apple Maps">Apple Maps</a>, both on <a href="/wiki/Desktop_computer" title="Desktop computer">desktop</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mobile_device" title="Mobile device">mobile devices</a>.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> In March 2019, Google added DuckDuckGo to the default search engine list in <a href="/wiki/Google_Chrome" title="Google Chrome">Chrome</a> 73.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> Beginning in 2018,<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> the company has offered <a href="/wiki/Browser_extension" title="Browser extension">browser extensions</a> for popular <a href="/wiki/Web_browser" title="Web browser">web browsers</a> (<a href="/wiki/Google_Chrome" title="Google Chrome">Google Chrome</a>, <a href="/wiki/Safari_(web_browser)" title="Safari (web browser)">Safari</a>, and others)<a href="#cite_note-extensions-6">[6]</a> as well as its own web browser, called the <a href="/wiki/DuckDuckGo_Private_Browser" title="DuckDuckGo Private Browser">DuckDuckGo Private Browser</a>.<a href="#cite_note-private_browser-7">[7]</a> Both of these products have protections against <a href="/wiki/Web_tracking" title="Web tracking">web tracking</a> and other privacy intrusions for all web browsing (not limited to DuckDuckGo searches).<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> Prior to August 2022, DuckDuckGo Private Browser did not block Microsoft tracking scripts.<a href="#cite_note-allows-54">[54]</a><a href="#cite_note-caught-55">[55]</a><a href="#cite_note-pushback-56">[56]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2020s">2020s</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=DuckDuckGo&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 2020s">edit</a>]</div> In July 2021, DuckDuckGo introduced its <a href="/wiki/Email_forwarding" title="Email forwarding">email forwarding</a> 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 DuckDuckGo Private Browser on iOS and Android.<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> As of March 2022<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DuckDuckGo&action=edit">[update]</a>, DuckDuckGo handled 102,704,358 daily searches on average.<a href="#cite_note-DDG-traffic-58">[58]</a> On March 1, 2022, in response to the <a href="/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine</a>, DuckDuckGo paused its partnership with <a href="/wiki/Yandex_Search" title="Yandex Search">Yandex Search</a>.<a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a> 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."<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a><a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a><a href="#cite_note-nyt_mar2022-62">[62]</a> In April 2022, <a href="/wiki/TorrentFreak" title="TorrentFreak">TorrentFreak</a> reported that DuckDuckGo had blocked search results for some major <a href="/wiki/Online_piracy" title="Online piracy">pirating websites</a>, including <a href="/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" title="The Pirate Bay">The Pirate Bay</a>, <a href="/wiki/1337x" title="1337x">1337x</a> and <a href="/wiki/FMovies" title="FMovies">FMovies</a>, as well as video downloading software <a href="/wiki/Youtube-dl" title="Youtube-dl">Youtube-dl</a>.<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a><a href="#cite_note-Fingas-2022-64">[64]</a> In a statement to <a href="/wiki/Engadget" title="Engadget">Engadget</a>, 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:" <a href="/wiki/Web_search_query" class="mw-redirect" title="Web search query">search queries</a> used for these websites and other searches and said that the problem had been fixed.<a href="#cite_note-Fingas-2022-64">[64]</a> Also in April, DuckDuckGo said that they would protect users from being tracked by Google's <a href="/wiki/Accelerated_Mobile_Pages" title="Accelerated Mobile Pages">Accelerated Mobile Pages framework</a>, stating: "When you load or share a Google AMP page anywhere from DuckDuckGo apps (<a href="/wiki/IOS" title="IOS">iOS</a>/<a href="/wiki/Android_(operating_system)" title="Android (operating system)">Android</a>/<a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">Mac</a>) or extensions (<a href="/wiki/Firefox" title="Firefox">Firefox</a>/<a href="/wiki/Google_Chrome" title="Google Chrome">Chrome</a>), the original publisher's webpage will be used in place of the Google AMP version".<a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a> In May 2022, a report from <a href="/wiki/Bleeping_Computer" title="Bleeping Computer">Bleeping Computer</a> by security researcher Zach Edwards found that DuckDuckGo Private Browser allowed Microsoft's trackers to continue running while visiting non-DuckDuckGo websites, contrary to Google and Facebook trackers, which were blocked. In response, Weinberg said that "unfortunately, our Microsoft search syndication agreement prevents us from doing more to Microsoft-owned properties. However, we have been continually pushing and expect to be doing more soon." He also said given that most browsers "don't even attempt" to block third-party scripts from loading, users would still be safer than on other browsers.<a href="#cite_note-allows-54">[54]</a><a href="#cite_note-caught-55">[55]</a> In August 2022, DuckDuckGo began blocking Microsoft's trackers, saying that the policy preventing them from doing so no longer applied.<a href="#cite_note-promise-66">[66]</a><a href="#cite_note-pushback-56">[56]</a> In September 2022, <a href="/wiki/Debian" title="Debian">Debian</a> package maintainers switched the default search engine in <a href="/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)" title="Chromium (web browser)">Chromium</a> to DuckDuckGo for privacy reasons.<a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a> In April 2024, DuckDuckGo introduced Privacy Pro, a paid subscription that includes a VPN, Personal Information Removal, Identify Theft Restoration.<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> The subscription launched to users of the DuckDuckGo browser in the United States. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Features">Features</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=DuckDuckGo&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Features">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Search_results">Search results</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=DuckDuckGo&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Search results">edit</a>]</div> DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of "over 400" sources according to itself, including Bing, Yahoo! Search BOSS, <a href="/wiki/Wolfram_Alpha" class="mw-redirect" title="Wolfram Alpha">Wolfram Alpha</a>, Yandex, and its own <a href="/wiki/Web_crawler" title="Web crawler">web crawler</a> (the DuckDuckBot); but none from Google.<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a><a href="#cite_note-Buys-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a><a href="#cite_note-Hollingsworth-2019-71">[71]</a><a href="#cite_note-nyt_mar2022-62">[62]</a> It also uses data from <a href="/wiki/Crowdsourcing" title="Crowdsourcing">crowdsourced</a> sites such as <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a>, to populate knowledge panel boxes to the right of the search results.<a href="#cite_note-Hollingsworth-2019-71">[71]</a><a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a> DuckDuckGo offers a Lite version of its search for browsers without <a href="/wiki/JavaScript" title="JavaScript">JavaScript</a> capabilities.<a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a> Weinberg has refined the quality of his search engine results by deleting search results for companies he believes are <a href="/wiki/Content_farm" title="Content farm">content mills</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/EHow" title="EHow">eHow</a>, 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.<a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a> DuckDuckGo down ranks websites deemed to have low journalistic standards.<a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Instant_Answers">Instant Answers</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=DuckDuckGo&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Instant Answers">edit</a>]</div> In addition to the indexed search results, DuckDuckGo displays relevant results, called <a href="/wiki/Instant_answer" title="Instant answer">instant answers</a>, 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.<a href="#cite_note-DuckDuckHack-76">[76]</a> As of July 2019<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DuckDuckGo&action=edit">[update]</a>, there were 1236 Instant Answers active.<a href="#cite_note-77">[77]</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/JSON" title="JSON">JSON</a> files. Fathead Instant Answers are key-value answers hosted on DuckDuckGo's <a href="/wiki/Back-end_database" title="Back-end database">backend</a>. 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.<a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a> In March 2023, DuckDuckGo added DuckAssist to Instant Answers. Using <a href="/wiki/Large_language_model" title="Large language model">large language models</a> from <a href="/wiki/OpenAI" title="OpenAI">OpenAI</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anthropic" title="Anthropic">Anthropic</a>, DuckAssist generates answers to users' questions by scanning online encyclopedias (like Wikipedia and <a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica" title="Encyclopædia Britannica">Britannica</a>).<a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a><a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tor_access">Tor access</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=DuckDuckGo&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Tor access">edit</a>]</div> In August 2010, DuckDuckGo introduced anonymous searching, including an exit enclave,<a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a> for its search engine traffic using <a href="/wiki/Tor_(network)" title="Tor (network)">Tor network</a> and enabling access through a "Tor hidden service" (<a href="/wiki/Onion_service" class="mw-redirect" title="Onion service">onion service</a>).<a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a> 3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion <a href="/wiki/Tor_(network)" title="Tor network"><img alt="Tor network" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Tor-logo-2011-flat.svg/18px-Tor-logo-2011-flat.svg.png" decoding="async" width="18" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Tor-logo-2011-flat.svg/27px-Tor-logo-2011-flat.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Tor-logo-2011-flat.svg/36px-Tor-logo-2011-flat.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="306" data-file-height="185" /></a>(<a href="/wiki/Tor_(network)#Tor_Browser" title="Tor (network)">Accessing link help</a>)<a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a><a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a>(deprecated) was the DuckDuckGo v2 onion service on Tor.<a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a><a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a><a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a> 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."<a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a> In July 2021, DuckDuckGo introduced a new v3 onion service, with a new link: duckduckgogg42xjoc72x3sjasowoarfbgcmvfimaftt6twagswzczad.onion <a href="/wiki/Tor_(network)" title="Tor network"><img alt="Tor network" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Tor-logo-2011-flat.svg/18px-Tor-logo-2011-flat.svg.png" decoding="async" width="18" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Tor-logo-2011-flat.svg/27px-Tor-logo-2011-flat.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Tor-logo-2011-flat.svg/36px-Tor-logo-2011-flat.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="306" data-file-height="185" /></a>(<a href="/wiki/Tor_(network)#Tor_Browser" title="Tor (network)">Accessing link help</a>).<a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bangs">Bangs</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=DuckDuckGo&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Bangs">edit</a>]</div> 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.<a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a> 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.<a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Privacy">Privacy</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=DuckDuckGo&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Privacy">edit</a>]</div> DuckDuckGo does not track its users.<a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a><a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a> DuckDuckGo keeps <a href="/wiki/Favicon" title="Favicon">favicons</a> anonymous.<a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a> Users' location is never sent to DuckDuckGo servers, even when they allow a third party to collect their geolocations.<a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a> DuckDuckGo offers limited third-party tracking protection, third-party cookie protection, CNAME cloaking protection, limited device <a href="/wiki/Fingerprint_(computing)" title="Fingerprint (computing)">fingerprint</a> protection from third parties, link tracking removal, Google AMP replacement, and do-not-track requests.<a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Business_model">Business model</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=DuckDuckGo&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Business model">edit</a>]</div> DuckDuckGo earns revenue by serving ads primarily from the Yahoo-Bing search alliance network.<a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a> As a privacy-focused search engine, the ads served on DuckDuckGo are based on keywords and terms of the search query.<a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a><a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a> As of April 2024, DuckDuckGo also makes money from subscription fees paid to access Privacy Pro. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Donations">Donations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=DuckDuckGo&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Donations">edit</a>]</div> The company supports charitable organizations that work to improve privacy; in 2021 they donated <a href="/wiki/US$" class="mw-redirect" title="US$">US$</a>1 million to these causes and had donated $3,650,000 over the previous decade. Major donations for 2021 included $200,000 to the <a href="/wiki/Center_for_Information_Technology_Policy" title="Center for Information Technology Policy">Center for Information Technology Policy</a>, $150,000 to the <a href="/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation" title="Electronic Frontier Foundation">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a>, $75,000 to <a href="/wiki/European_Digital_Rights" title="European Digital Rights">European Digital Rights</a> (EDRi) and $75,000 to <a href="/wiki/The_Markup" title="The Markup">The Markup</a>.<a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Source_code">Source code</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=DuckDuckGo&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Source code">edit</a>]</div> Some of DuckDuckGo's <a href="/wiki/Source_code" title="Source code">source code</a> is <a href="/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software" title="Free and open-source software">free and open-source software</a> hosted at <a href="/wiki/GitHub" title="GitHub">GitHub</a> under the <a href="/wiki/Apache_License" title="Apache License">Apache 2.0 License</a>,<a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a> but the core is <a href="/wiki/Proprietary_software" title="Proprietary software">proprietary</a>.<a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a> DuckDuckGo also hosted DuckDuckHack, a sister site for organizing open source contributions and community projects. The search engine's <a href="/wiki/Instant_answer" title="Instant answer">Instant Answers</a> are open source<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Pull_request" class="mw-redirect" title="Pull request">pull requests</a> for bug fixes will be approved.<a href="#cite_note-DuckDuckHack-76">[76]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=DuckDuckGo&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Reception">edit</a>]</div> In a June 2011 article, Harry McCracken of <a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a> commended DuckDuckGo, comparing it to his favorite hamburger restaurant, <a href="/wiki/In-N-Out_Burger" title="In-N-Out Burger">In-N-Out Burger</a>: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">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 ...<a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a></blockquote> The bare-bones approach cited in his quote has since changed; for instance, DuckDuckGo now has <a href="/wiki/Autocomplete" title="Autocomplete">auto-completion</a>, instant results, and a news tab. McCracken included the site in Time's list of "50 Best Websites of 2011."<a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a> Thom Holwerda, who reviewed the search engine for <a href="/wiki/OSNews" title="OSNews">OSNews</a>, praised its privacy features and shortcuts to site-specific searches as well as criticizing Google for "tracking pretty much everything you do", particularly because of the risk of such information being subject to a <a href="/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States" title="Federal government of the United States">U.S. government</a> <a href="/wiki/Subpoena" title="Subpoena">subpoena</a>.<a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a> In 2012, in response to accusations that it was a monopoly, <a href="/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a> identified DuckDuckGo as a competitor. Weinberg was reportedly "pleased and entertained" by that acknowledgment.<a href="#cite_note-WashPostNov2012-9">[9]</a> In November 2019, Twitter CEO <a href="/wiki/Jack_Dorsey" title="Jack Dorsey">Jack Dorsey</a> 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!".<a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a> Conservative political commentators <a href="/wiki/Ben_Shapiro" title="Ben Shapiro">Ben Shapiro</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dan_Bongino" title="Dan Bongino">Dan Bongino</a> have also endorsed DuckDuckGo.<a href="#cite_note-Thompson-2022-108">[108]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Traffic">Traffic</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=DuckDuckGo&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Traffic">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:DuckDuckGo_Daily_Traffic_2010-2020.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/DuckDuckGo_Daily_Traffic_2010-2020.png/220px-DuckDuckGo_Daily_Traffic_2010-2020.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/DuckDuckGo_Daily_Traffic_2010-2020.png/330px-DuckDuckGo_Daily_Traffic_2010-2020.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/DuckDuckGo_Daily_Traffic_2010-2020.png/440px-DuckDuckGo_Daily_Traffic_2010-2020.png 2x" data-file-width="1378" data-file-height="775" /></a><figcaption>Traffic chart</figcaption></figure> In June 2013, DuckDuckGo indicated that it had seen a significant traffic increase; according to the company's <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a> 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<a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a> relate this claim to the exposure of <a href="/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)" class="mw-redirect" title="PRISM (surveillance program)">PRISM</a> and to the fact that other programs operated by the <a href="/wiki/National_Security_Agency" title="National Security Agency">National Security Agency</a> (NSA) were leaked by <a href="/wiki/Edward_Snowden" title="Edward Snowden">Edward Snowden</a>. <a href="/wiki/Danny_Sullivan_(technologist)" title="Danny Sullivan (technologist)">Danny Sullivan</a> 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".<a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a> In response, <a href="/wiki/Caleb_Garling" title="Caleb Garling">Caleb Garling</a> of the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Chronicle" title="San Francisco Chronicle">San Francisco Chronicle</a> 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.<a href="#cite_note-111">[111]</a> Later in September 2013, the search engine hit 4 million searches per day<a href="#cite_note-112">[112]</a><a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a><a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a> and in June 2015, it hit 10 million searches per day.<a href="#cite_note-About-3">[3]</a> In November 2017, DuckDuckGo hit 20 million searches per day.<a href="#cite_note-About-3">[3]</a> In January 2019, DuckDuckGo set a record of 1 billion monthly searches;<a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a> and in November of the same year, it hit 50 million searches per day. As of March 2022<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DuckDuckGo&action=edit">[update]</a>, DuckDuckGo was receiving 102,704,358 queries per day on average.<a href="#cite_note-DDG-traffic-58">[58]</a> On January 11, 2021, a record of over 102.2 million daily searches was achieved.<a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a> A new record of 111,703,299 daily searches was set on 17 January 2022.<a href="#cite_note-DDG-traffic-58">[58]</a> During the year of 2022, DuckDuckGo experienced stagnation and a slight decline in the number of searches per month.<a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Political_spectrum" title="Political spectrum">political leanings</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Thompson-2022-108">[108]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=DuckDuckGo&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-image{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output 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