Looking to the future, though, we want to do more to protect people once they click away from our search results. We need to continue working hard to provide great search results to prove you don’t have to give up convenience for peace of mind. What do you see as the next steps for the company over the next five years? Are there plans to add more features to DuckDuckGo? Or even expanding DuckDuckGo to other online services?ĭespite how simple DuckDuckGo looks, building and running a search engine is complicated and ever-changing. DuckDuckGo has been around for a decade now. As online privacy has become increasingly attacked, these alternatives are increasingly attractive. We see an increasing array of similar alternatives. Yes, as particular technologies become standardized and pervasive like search, email, or messaging, then companies like ours can give people alternative options based on shared ethical values - in our case, privacy. The Financial Times recently called DuckDuckGo the “ethical search engine.” Do you see similar ethical/clean products and services online becoming more popular alternatives in the near future? Nearly one-quarter of people is by no means a small number and this group is certainly not “niche.” They also cut across all demographics - interest in protecting privacy online is a universal interest across the age and political spectrum. With increasingly invasive advertising, devastating data breaches, and the ramping up of regulatory focus, we expect this group to continue to grow. Our privacy research is showing that privacy is now mainstream, with 24% of the population now caring deeply enough about their online privacy to take significant actions to try to protect it. To what would you attribute this increase?Ģ017 has actually been a year of milestones for us: we’ve now reached 15 billion private searches, and on Nov 27 hit a record 21 million searches in one day! Weinberg! Earlier this year, DuckDuckGo hit a milestone 10 billion private searches, after a steepening use curve in recent years. Naturally, we at ExpressVPN are massive fans of DuckDuckGo, so we were absolutely thrilled at the chance to pick the brains of its founder, Gabriel Weinberg, on their milestones, challenges facing online privacy, and the possibility of expanding beyond its search engine. Meeting the growing demand of the privacy-conscious public for 10 years now is DuckDuckGo - a privacy-oriented search engine that doesn’t collect or share any of your information from your searches, period.
0 kommentar(er)
