> When the Web search engine DuckDuckGo, which advertises its superior privacy practices, attributed a rise in its daily queries to the PRISM revelation, it did

> When the Web search engine DuckDuckGo, which advertises its superior privacy practices, attributed a rise in its daily queries to the PRISM revelation, it did not include user counts. contrary to this article, duckduckgo showing a huge increase in the number of queries: implies an increase in number of users. it doesn't store user id's as a matter of policy, surprised the author doesn't mention that is why user count is not reported. the fact that it can't do so is the whole point. would be interested in growth numbers for textsecure, redphone, firefox hello vs. skype, visits to glen greenwalds site and so on. some background on the author: Author Sören Preibusch (http://preibusch.de/ http://preibusch.de/) is a user experience researcher at Google, Mountain View, CA, and was at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, U.K., when this article was written.