From the «bangs for the win» department:
Feed: Daring Fireball
Title: DuckDuckGo Continues to Grow
Author: John Gruber
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 19:10:32 -0400
Link: https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgrowing/
I missed this state-of-the-company update from DuckDuckGo last week:
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DuckDuckGrowth over the last 12 months: 50M+ app downloads, 55% search traffic increase, #2 search engine on mobile in the U.S., Canada,
Australia, the Netherlands & more.
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In the coming weeks, we’re adding new free privacy protections in beta including a cross-platform email privacy solution & app tracker blocking
on Android devices.
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Later this year, we’ll release a beta of the first-ever DuckDuckGo desktop app, which can be used as a primary browser.
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DuckDuckGo has been profitable since 2014 with revenues now $100M+/yr. In late 2020, we completed a $100M+ mainly secondary investment from new & existing investors.
#2 search engine on mobile in the U.S. is huge — that would put them ahead of
Bing, which comes from a slightly larger company than DuckDuckGo. It also puts
them ahead of Yahoo, which was at one time a very well-known company. (I swear
that’s true.)
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Links:
[1]: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/06/24/duckduckgo-growth (link)
From the <<bangs for the win>> department:
Feed: Daring Fireball
Title: DuckDuckGo Continues to Grow
Author: John Gruber
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 19:10:32 -0400
Link: https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgrowing/
I missed this state-of-the-company update from DuckDuckGo last week:
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DuckDuckGrowth over the last 12 months: 50M+ app downloads, 55% search traffic increase, #2 search engine on mobile in the U.S., Canada,
Australia, the Netherlands & more.
*
In the coming weeks, we're adding new free privacy protections in beta including a cross-platform email privacy solution & app tracker blocking
on Android devices.
*
Later this year, we'll release a beta of the first-ever DuckDuckGo desktop app, which can be used as a primary browser.
*
DuckDuckGo has been profitable since 2014 with revenues now $100M+/yr. In late 2020, we completed a $100M+ mainly secondary investment from new & existing investors.
RS Wood<rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
From the<<bangs for the win>> department:
Feed: Daring Fireball
Title: DuckDuckGo Continues to Grow
Author: John Gruber
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 19:10:32 -0400
Link: https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgrowing/
I missed this state-of-the-company update from DuckDuckGo last week:
*
DuckDuckGrowth over the last 12 months: 50M+ app downloads, 55% search
traffic increase, #2 search engine on mobile in the U.S., Canada,
Australia, the Netherlands& more.
*
In the coming weeks, we're adding new free privacy protections in beta
including a cross-platform email privacy solution& app tracker blocking
on Android devices.
*
Later this year, we'll release a beta of the first-ever DuckDuckGo desktop >> app, which can be used as a primary browser.
*
DuckDuckGo has been profitable since 2014 with revenues now $100M+/yr. In
late 2020, we completed a $100M+ mainly secondary investment from new&
existing investors.
Referring to the rest of DDG's news post, a lot of this privacy
talk seems like marketing overreach to me. While using a search
engine that (you trust) doesn't track you is certainly part of a
privacy mix, it obviously does nothing to prevent any web server
admin seeing your IP address in their own connection logs. With web infrastructure becomming more centralised by services such as AWS
and Cloudflare, those services also get that capacity to trace
connections to a significant percentage of websites overall.
Besides the promises about not tracking me (which, like with VPN
services, I don't really trust without a way to prove them), I
really like the "lite" interface and the customisation that's
available with URL Parameters (particularly disabling ads). I
hope those things don't get lost amongst this obvious facination
with being the next Google - you know, getting into email,
launching a browser, you can see where this is going...
I think they should put their money into matching search features.
Eg. I went over to Google yesterday to use their feature of
searching for images similar to an image you upload (after checking
in DDG's non-lite site that they still don't have an equivalent).
Granted the results that Google spat back were completely useless,
but still...
DuckDuckGrowth over the last 12 months: 50M+ app downloads, 55% search traffic increase, #2 search engine on mobile in the U.S., Canada,
Australia, the Netherlands & more.
*
In the coming weeks, we’re adding new free privacy protections in beta including a cross-platform email privacy solution & app tracker blocking
on Android devices.
*
Later this year, we’ll release a beta of the first-ever DuckDuckGo desktop app, which can be used as a primary browser.
On 7/9/2021 9:57 PM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
Besides the promises about not tracking me (which, like with VPN
services, I don't really trust without a way to prove them), I
really like the "lite" interface and the customisation that's
available with URL Parameters (particularly disabling ads). I
hope those things don't get lost amongst this obvious facination
with being the next Google - you know, getting into email,
launching a browser, you can see where this is going...
I think they should put their money into matching search features.
Eg. I went over to Google yesterday to use their feature of
searching for images similar to an image you upload (after checking
in DDG's non-lite site that they still don't have an equivalent).
Granted the results that Google spat back were completely useless,
but still...
I think it's worth it to be out of Google's clutches. Those targeted "tracking" ads that follow you around... they've basically entirely
stopped since I've disassociated myself with Google a few years ago.
Referring to the rest of DDG's news post, a lot of this privacy
talk seems like marketing overreach to me.
| Sysop: | Keyop |
|---|---|
| Location: | Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK |
| Users: | 300 |
| Nodes: | 16 (2 / 14) |
| Uptime: | 67:25:07 |
| Calls: | 6,712 |
| Files: | 12,244 |
| Messages: | 5,356,415 |