I didn’t think about it from a business perspective at the time. Wikipedia wasn’t coming up at the top so I added that… Then I added privacy to that.
I was also adding in a bunch of instant answers. Back at that time, there were a lot of bad results. I just started trying to improve my Google results. “I started out not by trying to start a competitor. He also dismissed claims of starting DuckDuckGo as a competitor for Google and said that it rather started as a way of polishing Google search results of that time, saying In an interview with Forbes, he mentioned that he found the idea of “bringing together those sites in an interesting way” appealing. On the lookout for a new passion project, Weinberg decided to devise a search site. Gabriel Weinberg had just sold his now-obsolete social network site ‘NamesDatabase’ to for $10 million. The origin of DuckDuckGo’s founding dates back to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania in February 2008. The chief executive of DuckDuckGo, Gabriel Weinberg, founded the company in 2008 and owns it to this day Gabriel Weinberg Gabriel Weinberg, CEO & Founder Of DuckDuckGo (Photo By duckduckgo/instagram)
Moreover, unlike other tech companies found in Silicon Valley, the headquarters of DuckDuckGo is based in Paoli, Pennsylvania. It differs from other tech giants as it does not collect or store any of the users’ personal information and search history. In a span of 13 years, the relatively obscure search engine has grown from witnessing a few thousand daily searches to hundreds of million daily searches today. The company proclaims their privacy policy on their website as “We don’t collect or share personal information”. Pitted against Google as its prominent competitor, DuckDuckGo offers the one thing that Google fails to provide protecting the privacy of a user’s digital footprint.
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