![]() ![]() This is combined with the simple promise laid out in our Privacy Policy: we don’t track you. While our product started as a search engine, today it’s a free, mobile and desktop browser with our private search engine built-in, along with more than a dozen other tracking protections, many that are unique to DuckDuckGo (if you want to know more about them, I’ve added a list below). According to a recent Forrester study, 87% of US online adults “use at least one privacy- or security-protecting tool online.” Fifteen years later we've built something truly rare in tech: a healthy, profitable company that protects user privacy, instead of exploiting it. I realized DuckDuckGo was resonating with people when things really started to pick up in 2011, so I started building out the team (many of whom are still at the company today) and we established our company vision to raise the standard of trust online. It was just me behind the scenes for quite a while, putting together the search engine and asking people for feedback. ![]() ![]() This was 2008 – years before Snowden, a decade before Cambridge Analytica, and more broadly before the world had started to realize the scary power and creepy surveillance of companies like Google and Facebook. Celebrating 15 Years of DuckDuckGo Filed under DuckDuckGo News on įounder and CEO, Gabriel Weinberg, celebrates DuckDuckGo's past, present, and future:įifteen years ago, I launched DuckDuckGo from my basement in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, hoping to offer a user-centric alternative to Google. ![]()
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