DuckDuckGo traffic up after Apple integration and privacy issues

[Batu69]

Privacy search engine DuckDuckGo has seen traffic rocket after recent widely publicised privacy scares, according the the company.

DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg told CNBC that usage of the service has grown 600% since 2013, which he ascribes to growing public awareness on privacy matters.

Weinberg said that recent NSA surveillance leaks combined with Apple adding DuckDuckGo as an optional search engine in devices running both iOS and OS X had driven the stellar growth in use.

DuckDuckGo differs from more traditional search engines such as Google because it does not track users based on their search history, but instead sells advertising based only on the content of each individual search. So if a user searches for ‘iPad’, they will see adverts for Apple’s tablet. However, Facebook and Google have built enormous databases of information concerning people’s search and buying habits that enable them to target ads in a more granular manner.

Weinberg continued, stating that users probably don’t realise how much data Google is collecting on them and what it is doing with that data. This is how DuckDuckGo will continue to grow and win over customers, said Weinberg, according to a report by 9 to 5 Mac.

Mashable reports that DuckDuckGo jumped to nearly 2 billion searches in 2014, up from a billion in 2013.

The legality of surveillance by the NSA is still being debated in US courts. We Live Security reported back in May that the most recent development was that the mass collection of phone records and metadata had been ruled illegal on appeal, overturning a previous contrary ruling from 2013.

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[steven36]

As dramatic as DuckDuckGo's growth has been, it still retains only a very tiny share of the search market, of which Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo collectively make up more than 90%. Still, it's notable that DuckDuckGo has slowly inched its way toward the mainstream based primarily on word of mouth. If it wants to get serious about competing in the search space, this tiny startup is going to need to step up its game—and its income—pretty aggressively. But for now, Weinberg seems content to occupy this tiny corner of the market as he watches the tide of public attitude turn in his favor.

http://www.fastcompany.com/3046943/how-duckduckgo-rode-a-wave-of-post-snowden-anxiety-to-massive-growth

[mona]

Google tracks you. DuckDuckGo doesn't. An illustrated guide.

[mona]

Escape your search engine Filter Bubble! An illustrated guide.

[steven36]

I like DDG but hardly use it . I will use it searching for something that's been out in the media for a day or a so i will find some results . But for something that's new Google and Bing are hard to top . When I use Google I do keep cookies blocked and use Google privacy addon and a VPN . But over all I use many search engines because Google is fast at deleting results as they are posting them . ^_^

DDG avg

https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html

Compare that to like 18.9 billion searches a month that Google has that's not very many

18.9 billion explicit core searches were conducted in March, with Google Sites ranking first with 12.1 billion (up 11 percent). Microsoft Sites ranked second with 3.8 billion searches (up 12 percent), followed by Yahoo Sites with 2.4 billion (up 10 percent), Ask Network with 332 million (up 10 percent) and AOL, Inc. with 203 million (up 10 percent).

  http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Market-Rankings/comScore-Releases-March-2015-US-Desktop-Search-Engine-Rankings

On March 23, 2015, DuckDuckGo retrieved more than 9 million searches for the first day in its history. That month also saw the search engine retrieve more than 250 million searches, another record for the company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo

It shows the masses dont care about no private search they care about relevant results. because all search engines did good last month all were up. :)

[CODYQX4]

I like DDG but hardly use it . I will use it searching for something that's been out in the media for a day or a so i will find some results . But for something that's new Google and Bing are hard to top . When I use Google I do keep cookies blocked and use Google privacy addon and a VPN . But over all I use many search engines because Google is fast at deleting results as they are posting them . ^_^

DDG avg

https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html

Compare that to like 18.9 billion searches a month that Google has that's not very many

18.9 billion explicit core searches were conducted in March, with Google Sites ranking first with 12.1 billion (up 11 percent). Microsoft Sites ranked second with 3.8 billion searches (up 12 percent), followed by Yahoo Sites with 2.4 billion (up 10 percent), Ask Network with 332 million (up 10 percent) and AOL, Inc. with 203 million (up 10 percent).

  http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Market-Rankings/comScore-Releases-March-2015-US-Desktop-Search-Engine-Rankings

On March 23, 2015, DuckDuckGo retrieved more than 9 million searches for the first day in its history. That month also saw the search engine retrieve more than 250 million searches, another record for the company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo

It shows the masses dont care about no private search they care about relevant results. because all search engines did good last month all were up. :)

I've never really been able to use DDG because the Google results were pretty much always better, so I use Disconnect Search on PC and iOS. It's the Google search results, but through a proxy that mixes results so Google has no clue what you searched for.

[steven36]

I like DDG but hardly use it . I will use it searching for something that's been out in the media for a day or a so i will find some results . But for something that's new Google and Bing are hard to top . When I use Google I do keep cookies blocked and use Google privacy addon and a VPN . But over all I use many search engines because Google is fast at deleting results as they are posting them . ^_^

DDG avg

https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html

Compare that to like 18.9 billion searches a month that Google has that's not very many

18.9 billion explicit core searches were conducted in March, with Google Sites ranking first with 12.1 billion (up 11 percent). Microsoft Sites ranked second with 3.8 billion searches (up 12 percent), followed by Yahoo Sites with 2.4 billion (up 10 percent), Ask Network with 332 million (up 10 percent) and AOL, Inc. with 203 million (up 10 percent).

  http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Market-Rankings/comScore-Releases-March-2015-US-Desktop-Search-Engine-Rankings

On March 23, 2015, DuckDuckGo retrieved more than 9 million searches for the first day in its history. That month also saw the search engine retrieve more than 250 million searches, another record for the company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo

It shows the masses dont care about no private search they care about relevant results. because all search engines did good last month all were up. :)

I've never really been able to use DDG because the Google results were pretty much always better, so I use Disconnect Search on PC and iOS. It's the Google search results, but through a proxy that mixes results so Google has no clue what you searched for.

i never set my homepage to no search engine i can add any search from most sites using add to search bar addon and my homepage will display that search with my own themed home page

I just use Cyberfox CTR to do it works in Cyberfox or Firefox . Here's and idea of what mine looks like I reduced the size of the image so it want take up so much space.

[steven36]

Google privacy policy is here
https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

But uks id diffrent
https://www.google.com/intl/en-GB/policies/privacy/

startpage privacy policy is here.
https://startpage.com/eng/privacy-policy.html?

I dont really trust any search engine I fell like DDG gives a false sense of security. I keep cookies blocked on them all and use a vpn. I also use DDG one with out redirecting and ads.


This is why.

1. Since the U.S. government has given itself both the power to compel U.S. corporations to spy for them and the power to prevent them from revealing this, we can't take the claims of any U.S. corporation at face-value.


2. DuckDuckGo is a U.S. based company.

"The NSA could get the DuckDuckGo master cert in one of three ways:
1. Be given the cert
2. Physical access to servers or load-balancers
3. Remote access to servers or load-balancers"

DuckDuckGo Not Entirely Free Of Big Brother

Big Brother Google tracks your data and shares it with the National Security Agency (NSA). As citizens we value our privacy and many of those concerned have switched over to DuckDuckGo to keep their browsing data a secret. That does not mean, however, that the NSA is not still tracking you. Read over the Ether Rag’s blog post: “DuckDuckGo: Illusion Of Privacy” for how the alternate search engine is required to comply with certain laws.

Under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), DuckDuckGo can be forced to release your Internet history. Also DuckDuckGo only protects its users from third party, not NSA spy drones. Can they prevent the NSA? Yahoo tried and lost their case.

The NSA will try to stop what it does not like and will do what it needs to do according to the agency’s purpose.

“This is not an indictment of DuckDuckGo per se. Except in as far as they are taking advantage of the hysteria to their own ends. Every provider needs to be upfront with saying, ‘If it is indeed true that the NSA is monitoring our ingress/egress traffic, we can make no guarantee of privacy regardless of encryption or other efforts on our part.’ In the larger picture, this is the crux of the problem not just for DuckDuckGo, but the internet as a whole. Until and unless agencies like the NSA are forbidden from conducting dragnet collection and analysis of data, there can be no privacy. Privacy is merely an illusion at this point.”

Can anybody else say great sarcastically? What is there do to at this point? Use DuckDuckGo and do not do anything to incite the NSA’s wraith.

http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2013/08/18/duckduckgo-not-entirely-free-of-big-brother/

[OrbingStorm]

The NSA and co has more money and resources to track me than I could ever stop it,so I mainly use DDG to not be tracked by third party advertisers.

[CODYQX4]

The NSA and co has more money and resources to track me than I could ever stop it,so I mainly use DDG to not be tracked by third party advertisers.

This. My setup will crush pretty much any ad tracking. It isn't going to stop the government if they have enough motivation to hack through my VPN/PC for whatever reason.

[dMog]

The NSA and co has more money and resources to track me than I could ever stop it,so I mainly use DDG to not be tracked by third party advertisers.

This. My setup will crush pretty much any ad tracking. It isn't going to stop the government if they have enough motivation to hack through my VPN/PC for whatever reason.

yea there is mass collection of data going on as we speak.... but if anyone actually thinks that from the 7 billions and billions of people in the world or even if they just use the population of america alone...that they themselves have done something to be singled out for special attention by the nsa...well you got a lot more pressing problems that require you immediate attention than what the nsa is doing

[steven36]

The NSA and co has more money and resources to track me than I could ever stop it,so I mainly use DDG to not be tracked by third party advertisers.

This. My setup will crush pretty much any ad tracking. It isn't going to stop the government if they have enough motivation to hack through my VPN/PC for whatever reason.

yea there is mass collection of data going on as we speak.... but if anyone actually thinks that from the 7 billions and billions of people in the world or even if they just use the population of america alone...that they themselves have done something to be singled out for special attention by the nsa...well you got a lot more pressing problems that require you immediate attention than what the nsa is doing

its Not just NSA you have worry about ether all countries have there own Spooks . And really you dont have to be doing anything wrong to have data collected on you .

its just like using filehost when Snowden revealed that Canada's main electronic surveillance agency spied on millions of file-sharing downloads from some of the world's most popular sites. More than 100 sites including Dotcom's Megaupload All these Fileshareing sites knew spooks were on there but did not warn the public . And Canada said they were collecting data and giving it to other countries .You can bet some were collecting data on Canada and giving it back to Canadian spooks .

After all this people think there safe? The sites are not going to admit spooks are collecting data .If the real truth be known it would scare many off and be bad for business. Many different country's sppoks work with the NSA just like many diffrent works with Canadian spooks. :(

As far advertising DDG has ads as well if you dont use and adblocker or the ads free version of it. The version most use has ads . That's how they get paid . Most adblockers block trackers as well as ads so if you cant escape being tracked by the government whats the point of using just it ?