Duck Duck Go hits 10 billion private searches | Government

Jason Yeaman
Mobile⌘Tech News
Published in
2 min readJan 24, 2017

Thanks Obama!

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Keeping Americans privacy in mind since June, 2013

Today, Gabriell Weinberg, founder and chief executive officer of DuckDuckGo, announced the anonymous search provider reached its 10 Billionth anonymous search execution.

Duck duck go

June of 2013 saw a dramatic rise in DDG use

DuckDuckGo saw a rapid rise in requests for their service, which doesn’t record what you search for, in June of 2013. That was the month Edward Snowden released documents that revealed the United States Government had been conducting mass surveillance operations — against the citizens that pay the bills.

DuckDuckGo is available in iOS as a default search engine.

iOS settings

How to use DuckDuckGo as your default browser in iOS.

Why you should care

Some people say, if you aren’t doing anything wrong, why should you care?

A better question is, if you aren’t doing anything wrong…why should they care?

Originally published at imthemobile.guru.

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Jason Yeaman
Mobile⌘Tech News

I cover topics in the mobile space: trends, strategy, business, legislation, philosophy and culture of Mobile technology.