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DuckDuckGo, A search engine focused arround user privacy!

DuckDuckGo (also abbreviated as DDG) is an internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results.DuckDuckGo does not show search results from content farms.It uses various APIs of other websites to show quick results to queries and for traditional links it uses the help of its partners (mainly Bing) and its own crawler.The company is based in Paoli, Pennsylvania, in Greater Philadelphia and had 149 employees as of October 2021.The company name is a reference to the children's game duck, duck, goose.DuckDuckGo was founded by Gabriel Weinberg and launched on February 29, 2008, in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.Later on, in 2018, a mobile web browser was introduced.Weinberg is an entrepreneur who previously launched Names Database, a now-defunct social network.

Initially self-funded by Weinberg up until 2011, it was then "backed by Union Square Ventures and a handful of angel investors."DuckDuckGo gains revenue via advertisements and affiliate programs.The search engine is written in Perl and runs on nginx, FreeBSD, and Linux. DuckDuckGo is built primarily upon search APIs from various vendors. Because of this, TechCrunch characterized the service as a "hybrid" search engine.Weinberg explained the beginnings of the name with respect to the children's game duck, duck, goose. He said of the origin of the name: "Really it just popped in my head one day and I just liked it. It is certainly influenced/derived from duck duck goose, but other than that there is no relation, e.g., a metaphor."DuckDuckGo was featured on TechCrunch's Elevator Pitch Friday in 2008, and it was a finalist in the 2008 BOSS Mashable Challenge.

In July 2010, Weinberg started a DuckDuckGo community website (duck.co) to allow the public to report problems, discuss means of spreading the use of the search engine, request features, and discuss open sourcing the code. The company registered the domain name ddg.gg on February 22, 2011,and acquired duck.com in December 2018,which are used as shortened URL aliases that redirect to duckduckgo.com.

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DuckDuckGo founder says privacy needs to be as simple as a single button press, The success of the quest to establish a more private web will depend upon the ability to create a new path of least resistance for users, the founder of search engine DuckDuckGo has said.