Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo you probably don't know
3 days ago
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- DuckDuckGo has 594 easter-egg logos that appear for specific search queries, with more being added regularly.
- The company is not owned by Google, despite persistent rumors, and has been independent since its founding in 2008.
- DuckDuckGo has been blocked in China since 2014 and intermittently in other countries like Indonesia and India due to its no-censorship policy.
- The company has been developing its own search indexes for over 15 years, including knowledge graphs and local search indexes.
- A significant portion of DuckDuckGo's search traffic comes from its own browsers, which are available on iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows.
- About 13% of U.S. adults identify as DuckDuckGo users, with the highest search market share on Mac at 4% in the U.S.
- DuckDuckGo offers private AI features like search answers and chat, which can be easily turned off, and provides a no-AI search domain.
- The company launched a subscription service including VPN, advanced AI models, and identity theft restoration, available in 30 countries.
- DuckDuckGo has a distributed team of over 300 employees across 30 countries, with a unique work culture avoiding mid-week meetings.
- The company played a key role in privacy standards like Global Privacy Control and donates to like-minded organizations, totaling over $8 million.