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No duckduckgo is bigger than you think. They'll be at a billion queries per month early next year most likely. 1/12 the size of bing may not sound like much,
by billmalarky 9y ago
No duckduckgo is bigger than you think.
They'll be at a billion queries per month early next year most likely.
1/12 the size of bing may not sound like much, but I believe it's still run by just a few fulltime employees (fair amount of part-timers). Plus DDG isn't burning a billion dollars a year to compete with Google.
https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html
- xutopia 9y agoHow do they plan to make money?
- naturalgradient 9y agoI understand they are already profitable: http://fortune.com/2015/10/09/duckduckgo-profitable/ http://fortune.com/2015/10/09/duckduckgo-profitable/
- lioeters 9y agoThanks for this link, it's a short article but I hadn't heard about it. I switched my default search engine to DDG about a year ago (occasionally using !g syntax for Google search), and really appreciate their service. I'm glad to hear they've found a profitable model that doesn't need to track users.
- boyce 9y agoIf you want better privacy try !s instead
- lucb1e 9y agoThe important bit of the article is the quote at the end, which I will quote in full: > Most of the money is still made without tracking people by showing you ads based on your keyword, i.e. type in car and get a car ad. These ads are lucrative because people have buying intent. All that tracking is for the rest of the Internet without this search intent, and that's why you're tracked across the Internet with those same ads. They don't link to their source, but a simple search solved that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10346440 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10346440 And for good measure, I also ran the search through Google. On Google it's the top hit; on DDG I have to pagedown once. (A random selection of words, without punctuation or apostrophes, quoted to do a literal search.)
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoFor one, they add their affiliate links to some store URLs: "Similarly, we may add an affiliate code to some eCommerce sites (e.g. Amazon & eBay) that results in small commissions being paid back to DuckDuckGo when you make purchases at those sites." https://duckduckgo.com/privacy https://duckduckgo.com/privacy
- hungerstrike 9y agoDDG uses Bing search results. It's also got orders of magnitude lower market share than Bing.
- CaptSpify 9y ago> DDG uses Bing search results Source on that? Their page says otherwise: https://duck.co/help/results/sources https://duck.co/help/results/sources
- graeme 9y agoHow long would duckduckgo have to grow at its current growth rate to become larger than Bing?
- lucb1e 9y ago> No duckduckgo is bigger than you think. You're right, a twelfth of the volume of Bing is insane, especially with these marks on the table (which are probably an optimistic view, but still). Edit: changed 'inflated' to 'an optimistic view'.