Tag: duckduckgo

  • DuckDuckGo for Mac in private beta

    DuckDuckGo: So today we’re excited to announce the beta launch of DuckDuckGo for Mac, with DuckDuckGo for Windows coming soon. Like our mobile app, DuckDuckGo for Mac is an all-in-one privacy solution for everyday browsing with no complicated settings, just a seamless private experience. Plus, we’re excited to share some new features we think you’ll…

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  • Duck.com email

    Duck.com: Get a free, personal @duck.com email address. Emails sent to it will forward to your regular inbox, with creepy email trackers removed. What a great way to use that domain name!

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  • Duck.com is exploding

    You should switch to Duck.com. I’ve recommended this to you before. Why are you still using Google? Just last September I mentioned they were at 67M requests per day. They are about to tip over 100M per day. And, they just got a nice shot in the arm to continue this growth. I still think…

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  • Duck.com keeps growing. You should use it.

    In 2014 I linked to a post that showed DuckDuckGo‘s daily search volume at roughly 5 million searches per day. In 2015 they had grown to 12 million per day. I hadn’t checked in to their stats in a long time until I saw this tweet from them. They are now averaging 67 million searches…

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  • My personal data sharing policy

    I’ve been online since 1994. I’ve shared a lot of information here on my blog, through various social networks, and to different services like Google Maps, Untappd, and many others. That information has often included location, photos, audio and video. For decades I thought nothing of sharing my current location online. I used check-in services…

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  • How to use DuckDuckGo

    Brett Terpstra: The search syntax is very similar to Google’s, so if you’re familiar with that you won’t need to learn much. Obviously you can just search a bunch of words, but there are a few additional syntaxes you can use to refine results. Duck.com (as I like to call it now) is my search…

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  • Duck Duck Growth

    Two years ago I wrote about DuckDuckGo, my search engine of choice on all devices, reaching 12M daily active searches. They are still growing. Gabriel Weinberg: We are proud to say that at the end of last year, we surpassed a cumulative count of 10 billion anonymous searches served, with over 4 billion in 2016!…

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  • Duck Duck Grow

    In June of 2014 I mentioned that my search engine of choice, DuckDuckGo, was being added as a search option to my then browser of choice Safari. At the time DDG was getting roughly 5M daily search queries. Today? 12M daily search queries. If you haven’t switched your browser, tablet, and phone to using DDG…

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