DuckDuckGo, a privacybewuste search engine, it is in the last year has grown significantly. The company incorporated in 2013, more than a billion searches. The number of searches doubled after the NSA revelations from whistleblower Edward Snowden.
More than a billion searches is more than twice as many as in 2012, when DuckDuckGo 496 million searches processed. This is evident from the stats page of the search engine. On an average day in 2013, processed the search engine, 2.8 million searches. In 2012, there were still 1.4 million searches.
The number of searches increased after the revelations of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in June, suddenly, sharply. Where in the first half of 2013 per day on average 1.8 million times with DuckDuckGo was sought, was that in the second half of last year, 3.8 million times. Incidentally, also took the traffic via the DuckDuckGo api in 2013, which was 5.9 billion, from 3.7 billion times in 2012.
The privacybewuste search engine already exists since 2008, but grew in the past years of hard. In april 2010, when the site began with the measurement of the number of queries, processed the search engine only 30,000 to 43.000 searches per day. DuckDuckGo promises that it has no profiles put together from its visitors, such as, for example, Google does, and personalizes search results not.
