People flee Google as DuckDuckGo grows

September 6th, 2017

Awake Goy

People flee Google as DuckDuckGo grows

Speisa
September 6, 2017

Now that Google does not even hide that they monitor you, it’s good to have an alternative. The search engine DuckDuckGo has had huge growth in recent months.

In 2013, Edward Snowden released documents proving that the NSA was conducting warrantless online surveillance at a massive scale, something many had already suspected. In the subsequent year, many people have sought out more secure software to help ensure that their digital privacy remains intact. Groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation have subsequently promoted alternatives to popular software which can be easily adopted; such as DuckDuckGo to replace Google. As a result, DuckDuckGos popularity has skyrocketed.

According to newest stats from Alexa.com, DuckDuckGo has almost doubled its global popularity in the past year ranked as the 400th most popular website. When you dig down to the national scale, its ranked 255th in the US, 177th in Germany, 186th in France, 193rd in the UK, and 715th in China. The search engine is far more popular than other privacy oriented search engines such as Ixquick or Searx.

DuckDuckGo has been a bit of a magnet for privacy-oriented folk with it promising not to store personal information, track you around with ads, or in any other fashion. The search engine appeals to power users as well, with its more advanced features like bangs which are essentially prefixes that allow you to search websites directly; for example, adding !w as a prefix in search will lead to Wikipedia directly.

Google and Google’s YouTube, along with Facebook and Twitter, are also submissive to Merkel and the EU’s new guidelines to kill free speech, so switching to DuckDuckGoinstead of Google, is thus highly advised not to support the company complicit in destroying free speech.

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