Launched in 2008, DuckDuckGo's search engine is far behind Google, with its average number of searches per day reaching close to 50 million, while Google processes more than 3.5 billion search queries a day. DuckDuckGo has been selected as the default search engine in the highly-secure chat platform Tor Browser, and is often the default search engine in the private browsing modes of several other browsers. For a deeper investigation of Tor Browser, read our Tor Browser.
Launched in 2008, DuckDuckGo's search engine is far behind Google but the latest controversies around user data privacy has helped it gain momentum like Telegram and Signal. DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused search engine, has launched an extension feature that allows users to block Google’s FLoC (Google’s new tracking system) for Chrome users. Other than that, it’s the best and the most secure browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux devices. More than 4 million users have installed its app on both Android and iOS app stores and Chrome extension, the company said in a recent tweet. Combining the classic DuckDuckGo search features with the new extension (available on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari) and the app (available on iOS and Android). New Delhi, Jan 17 (Ians) As people move on to secure messaging apps like Telegram and Signal, privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has surpassed 100 million daily search queries for the first time in its 12-year-old history.