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DuckDuckGo Soars Past 100 Million Daily Search Queries

The privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has surpassed 100 million daily search queries for the first time ever, marking a major milestone in the site's 12-year-old history. The site's surging daily activity comes as a wave of consumers embrace alternatives to the Masters of the Universe...

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DuckDuckGo Soars Past 100 Million Daily Search Queries
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The privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has surpassed 100 million daily search queries for the first time ever, marking a major milestone in the site’s 12-year-old history. The site’s surging daily activity comes as a wave of consumers embrace alternatives to the Masters of the Universe, including messaging services like Signal and Telegram, and social media platforms such as Gab.

ZDNet reports that for the first time in the 12 years that the privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has been operating, the site has surpassed 100 million daily search queries. The milestone comes following a period of sustained growth over the past two years, and since August 2020 when DuckDuckGo began seeing more than 2 billion search queries a month.

In comparison to Google’s 5 billion daily search queries, DuckDuckGo’s latest milestone seems small, but it is a sign that more users are gravitating towards alternatives to the Big Tech Masters of the Universe. DuckDuckGo has seen a rise in popularity after the search engine expanded beyond its own website and now offers mobile apps for Android and iOS and an extension for the Google Chrome web browser.

The DuckDuckGo apps and extension have been installed by more than 4 million users, according to a tweet by the company in September 2020.

The DuckDuckGo about page states: “You deserve privacy. Companies are making money off of your private information online without your consent. At DuckDuckGo, we don’t think the Internet should feel so creepy and getting the privacy you deserve online should be as simple as closing the blinds. Too many people believe that you simply can’t expect privacy on the Internet. We disagree and have made it our mission to set a new standard of trust online.”

As big tech firms take independent social media networks such as Parler offline and others call for the banning of private messaging services, many users have begun flocking to independent apps and services such as Telegram and Signal.

Breitbart News reported earlier this month:

Signal, a messaging app, has seen “unprecedented” and “vertical” growth in recent days, according to Brian Acton, the billionaire executive chairman of the Signal Foundation.

Acton, who cofounded WhatsApp before selling it to Facebook, said recent changes to WhatsApp’s privacy policy are driving people to Signal. He told TechCrunch that Signal’s user base “exploded” in recent weeks.

“It’s a great opportunity for Signal to shine and to give people a choice and alternative,” Acton stated. “It was a slow burn for three years and then a huge explosion. Now the rocket is going.”

Read more at Breitbart News here.

 

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Chris Stirewalt out at Fox, criticized for early Biden election call

Fox News today dumped its politics editor, Chris Stirewalt, who Trump supporters ripped for being part of the team that called Arizona early on election night for Joe Biden, angering President Trump.

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Chris Stirewalt out at Fox, criticized for early Biden election call
by Paul Bedard, Washington Secrets Columnist | | January 19, 2021 05:21 PM

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Fox News today dumped its politics editor, Chris Stirewalt, who Trump supporters ripped for being part of the team that called Arizona early on election night for Joe Biden, angering President Trump.

Stirewalt, a former Washington Examiner staffer, also recently drew fire for criticizing Team Trump’s claim of election fraud.

He was let go along with nearly 20 other digital operations staff in a “restructuring” of the cable network announced in October. Other reports said that other executives in the Fox Washington bureau are also set to leave. (The old man must have come back to work)

It was Fox’s decision to call Arizona with just 73% of the vote counted that angered the president and GOP officials who feared that would prompt Republicans who hadn’t yet voted in the state to stay home instead.

It led election anchor (and pain in the ass) Bret Baier to complain, “We’re getting a lot of incoming here.” But the call was right, and, had it come later in the evening, would not have caused any controversy.

Since the election, Fox has slipped in ratings and shuffled its lineup of shows.

Stirewalt was popular in Washington media and political circles and held a prominent job at the network that Trump used to love. He is also an author, writing Every Man a King: A Short, Colorful History of American Populists Illustrated Edition.

He was often seen on air before the election and had a good following. But he hasn't appeared since Nov. 17.

A Fox News spokesperson declined to comment on Stirewalt's status, citing employee confidentiality.

In September, the cable giant announced the internal restructuring, and today's layoffs are part of that, said a person familiar with the matter. The cuts in the digital team came as the demands lightened after the election.

Secrets was told that the new digital team will be "diverse" and run mostly by a woman.

Also, those let go were given enhanced severance and benefits packages.

 

[Mongo]

I use that and dogpile

 

[Dozdoats]

And about 1/4 of them are me

I tell my DW that half my brain is now online. And she says "More."

 

[Publius]

This is good and Google is not getting the loin share and Google wants to know what your searching for and who your in contact with G-Mail and sells that info to third party's willing to pay for it.

 

[LostMyMind]

Unfortunately I still have to continue, at least for now, using Google and Chrome for business reasons.

However, ALL of my personal stuff, like this website/guns/religion/news, is all on a Brave browser and using Duckduckgo for search. Makes me gitty inside thinking about G losing market-share.

I keep both open all day and flipflop back and forth.

 

[Tripod]

I like DDG and installed it as my default search engine. I'm afraid if DDG is too successful google will either buy them out or find a way to financially break them. It's the communist way.
Mike

 

[Blacknarwhal]

I use DuckDuckGo, but half the time I have to switch to Google because DDG doesn't give useful results.

 

[Wiley]

Good, glad to see that. Google is a shit search engine and the sooner people figure that out the better.

 

[AlfaMan]

Like Duck Duck go as a search engine. It's pretty good, anything is better than Google.

 

[Kathy in FL]

I use DuckDuckGo, but half the time I have to switch to Google because DDG doesn't give useful results.

I rarely use google as a search engine. They suck. More often I use Bing. Yeah, yeah, I know ... but their hits are more in tune with what I am looking for. I'll give DDG a try however.

 

[vessie]

A friend of mine is a hardcore researcher and when I mentioned DDG she responded, "
WE CAN ADD FIREFOX & DUCK DUCK GO TO THE LIST OF COMPANIES THAT HAVE SOLD OUT
HORRIBLE PROPOGANDA IS ALL OVER DUCK DUCKJ GO".

And then she also said, "its ok .. hey , yes duck duck go is full of propoganda , ive been using Brave browser & express vpn , but im still getting bogged down at times .. they may be taking over that 1 too ". V

 

[Kris Gandillon]

Google still gets the lion's share by far.

Google gets 5 BILLION searches per day
Bing 500 million searches per day
Duckduckgo gets 100 million searches per day

 

[Laurane]

I appreciate DDG for genealogical research...... not enough "google" stuff to wade through and that is always past the newsy stuff.