DuckDuckGo, the privacy-first search engine, is experiencing record growth as customers become more concerned about protecting their privacy.
According to a company tweet, the search engine touted “a record breaking August,” with some two billion searches, 4 million app/extension installs and an estimated 65 million active users. The company admits it doesn’t have an exact count as a result of the very same privacy that makes the search engine unique.
📈 A Record Breaking August at DuckDuckGo!
— DuckDuckGo (@DuckDuckGo) September 10, 2020
⌨️ 2B searches
📱4M app/extension installs
👩💻 65M guesstimated active users (we don't actually know because… privacy)
Each person that demands privacy online is a step toward a better Internet for everyone. #SpreadPrivacy 🦆🦆🦆
Despite DuckDuckGo’s growth, it still has a long way to go before it’s a threat to Google. The search giant currently controls 87.3%, with Bing a distant runner-up at 7.2%. Even Yahoo only has 3.41%. DuckDuckGo brings up fourth place with 1.75%.
Even so, as customers become more privacy-conscious, DuckDuckGo may soon start moving into third and second place.