DuckDuckGo reaches 30 million queries per day
DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine, posted on Twitter that it has reached a new milestone, breaking 30 million queries per day on sensible.
50 percent growth. The company said it took seven years to be triumphant in 10 million searches in a single day. To get to 20 million searches, it took one other two years. Now, decrease than a year later, it is miles now at 30 million searches per day.
The growth retains on increasing as that you’ll want to perhaps tell from the published traffic charts:
Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of DuckDuckGo, advised TechCrunch, “We’ve been rising by roughly 50% a year somewhat constantly so at a macro level it isn’t too surprising, honest the numbers are getting greater!”
Weinberg added, “That said it has been even increased on top of that this year, especially within the previous two months.”
Why it matters. DuckDuckGo’s search engine provides every other to Google, Bing and other serps and yahoo that salvage and exhaust behavioral recordsdata for ad focused on each and every on and off their services.
When compared to the tens of billions of searches Google processes per day, DuckDuckGo’s quantity barely registers, but the Cambridge Analytica Scandal, the EU’s Total Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and discuss of privacy regulation within the U.S. luxuriate in raised public consciousness about on-line recordsdata security concerns and can help spur continued growth for privacy-centric initiatives.
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Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land’s News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY basically based fully internet consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on SEM issues.
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