According to DuckDuckGo search engine officials, their search engine surpasses 100 million searches in a single day. This is the first time in last 12 years, DuckDuckGo achieves more than 100 million searches.
According to their website, January 11, 2021 is the historical day when DuckDuckGo recorded 102,251,307 search queries in 24 hours.
Leading Privacy Search Engine
DuckDuckGo is basically a privacy search engine which enables their users to search on internet without tracking. With an ambition to empower people to take control of their information, DuckDuckGo is successfully providing its privacy oriented search engine services.
DuckDuckGo Search Story: From 2008 to 2021
DuckDuckGo is now approximately 12 years old company with 2.5 billion private searches monthly. Let’s Take a look at its journey with major milestones:
- 2008: It all begins in a dusty basement with only few servers.
- 2010: A bold decision to be a privacy search engine without tracking user information.
- 2011: New slogan “Google tracks you. We don’t.” tells the world about the importance of their privacy.
- 2012: DuckDuckGo launches First major UI overhaul with a new engaging design. First time surpasses 1 million searches in a single day.
- 2013: On June 10, surpasses 2 million searches a day right after 483 days of previous milestone. Interestingly, right after 7 days DuckDuckGo got 3 million search queries per day.
- 2014: With the launch of iOS 8, Apple includes DuckDuckGo in Safari. Mozilla also adds it as a search option in FireFox.
- 2015: 10,210,082 search queries a day that is more than 10 million searches in a single day.
- 2016: DuckDuckGo search engine hit 4 billion searches in one year.
- 2017: More privacy oriented users come to the platform. Reaches 20 million search queries in a single day.
- 2018: Launches a new mobile app and browser extension across approximately all the platforms.
- 2019: Surpasses 1 billion searches in one month (February). Another remarkable milestone.
- 2020: Overall search queries surpasses 50 billion. Becoming a popular privacy search platform among masses.
- 2021: A huge spike with more than 100 million search queries in a single day.
Interesting Fact about DuckDuckGo
From 2008 to 2011, there’s a single person “Gabriel” behind this privacy search platform. On November 30, 2011, Caine Tighe became their first employee who changed this scenario.
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