DuckDuckGo's 100 Million Searches
DuckDuckGo continues to grow steadily, reaching 100 million searches per day for the first time.
DuckDuckGo celebrates a milestone by reaching 100 million searches in a single day.
DuckDuckGo's public traffic data points to the record.
DuckDuckGo is on track to hit roughly 90 million daily searches on average.
For comparison, DuckDuckGo averaged about 52 million daily searches on average, which means the monthly numbers represent a 73% increase year over year.
DuckDuckGo's growth isn't limited to web search, as its mobile app is more popular than ever.
Last week it peaked at 7 in the iOS App Store charts for all free apps and 1 on all utility apps.
DuckDuckGo's success on mobile has propelled it to second place behind Google in terms of mobile search market share, spoofing Bing, and Yahoo.
DuckDuckGo is officially the second-largest mobile search engine in the United States.
On the desktop, Bing and Yahoo are behind on position # 4.
However, there is less room for a search engine to thrive on the desktop, as more searches occur on mobile devices.
DuckDuckGo is experiencing an unmatched rate of growth in its 12-year history.
All signs point to this being part of a wider shift to private platforms.
The main selling point of DuckDuckGo over other search engines is its privacy features.
Users can perform searches without their personal information being collected and sold to advertisers.
Recent events have encouraged the adoption of privacy-based applications.
As DuckDuckGo moves up the ranks of the App Store, so do encrypted messaging apps like Signal and Telegram.
As of this writing, Signal and Telegram are # 1 and # 2 on the US App Store respectively.
As people become more aware of how businesses use their data, it seems like they are making conscious decisions to choose different services.
Antitrust investigations of companies like Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google have brought their privacy policies to the fore.
Alternative search engines, social media apps, and messaging apps are all on the rise.
As for DuckDuckGo, it has grown steadily enough to suggest it will continue to do so.
DuckDuckGo's journey to 100 million searches per day has taken years, it wasn't something that happened overnight.
DuckDuckGo to invest in more features that bring it closer to a true 1: 1 alternative to other search engines.
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