Major digital platforms, including Google, Facebook, WhatsApp and others have been facing antitrust allegations and subsequent investigations from several governments around the world. With the recent rate of growth unseen in DuckDuckGo's history, the platform leaves behind the likes of Bing and Yahoo. It ranked seventh among all the free apps on the store. Its app for iOS reached the top spot in all utility apps in the App Store charts. The search platform saw an average of around 52 million daily searches in January 2020 in comparison to the near-90 million late last year.Ī report by Search Engine Journal highlights the rise of DuckDuckGo on the mobile front too. The recent digital migration towards platforms that offer more privacy options to users is now reflected in DuckDuckGo’s growth. The focus is on maintaining data privacy of the user. It works to stop users from being tracked by the web addresses that they visit. The search engine is available on smartphones as an app (both Android and iOS) and on PCs as a web browser extension. DuckDuckGo allows users to search the web without any collection of user data for advertising purposes. The number marks a 73% year-over-year jump for the search engine that is known for its data privacy features. With the recent milestone, DuckDuckGo is on track to record around 90 million daily average searches for the month of January.ĭuck Duck Go // Anti-Google search engineĪLSO READ: The Guy Who Built The World Wide Web Is Building A 'New Internet', Where You Control Your Data DuckDuckGo, a private search engine, has clocked 100 million searches in a single day, making it the second most used search engine after Google in the United States.
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