Since the NSA debacle, people are looking to use alternative search engines that protect users' privacy. Duck Duck Go is one search engine that has seen a huge spike in traffic, hitting a milestone of more than 3 million searches in a single day, after the NSA surveillance revelations.
As the company’s traffic page shows, the milestone occurred on Monday when Duck Duck Go had 3,095,907 “direct searches,” meaning searches done by human visitors (this search number excludes the millions of searches or hits by bots).
As the company’s traffic page shows, the milestone occurred on Monday when Duck Duck Go had 3,095,907 “direct searches,” meaning searches done by human visitors (this search number excludes the millions of searches or hits by bots).
What makes this so amazing is the impact that the NSA news has made for Duck Duck Go and how that's translated to the three million searches. It took them close to 4 years to get to 1 million searches (1445 days to be exact), 483 days to get to 2 million searches, and only 8 days to get to 3 million searches.
It appears that privacy concerns from the NSA/PRISM issue are spurring some people to seek alternative ways to perform their searches. DuckDuckGo is taking advantages by getting themselves mentioned via various media outlets and sending out press releases. It'll be interesting to see if they can continue to capitalize on these people who are defecting and actually take a significant chunk away from the big three (Google, Bing, Yahoo).
It appears that privacy concerns from the NSA/PRISM issue are spurring some people to seek alternative ways to perform their searches. DuckDuckGo is taking advantages by getting themselves mentioned via various media outlets and sending out press releases. It'll be interesting to see if they can continue to capitalize on these people who are defecting and actually take a significant chunk away from the big three (Google, Bing, Yahoo).
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