DuckDuckGo

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DuckDuckGo
The search engine that doesn't track you. ("The search engine that doesn't track you.")
Search engine
languages English, partly German a. v. m.
operator Duck Duck Go Inc., Paoli (Pennsylvania)
editorial staff Gabriel Weinberg
Registration No
On-line September 2008 (currently active)
https://duckduckgo.com/

DuckDuckGo (short: DDG ) is a search engine that is not supposed to collect any personal information . DuckDuckGo claims to be different from other search engines because it does not profile its users and shows the same results for all users. The search engine emphasizes that instead of the most searched search results, the best search results are displayed, with the search results coming from over 400 individual sources such as Wikipedia , but also from other search engines such as Bing , Yahoo or Yandex . Data protection was not the original goal, but a result of queries in the Hacker News and on Reddit .

Since the beginning of 2020 there has been an average of more than 50 million searches per day.

history

DuckDuckGo is founded by Gabriel Weinberg, the son of a doctor who, at a very young age, programmed an online shop for his mother's tailoring , studied physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and started his database of email addresses in 2006 for $ 10 million sold. Weinberg holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics and a Master of Science in Technology Policy . In 2005, Weinberg wrote his master's thesis on the problem of spam in the technology and politics course .

Less advertising and more relevance was also the original goal of DuckDuckGo. In January 2011, DuckDuckGo was operated by Weinberg alone, and at that time it attracted attention with an advertising space in the South of Market district of San Francisco that discussed tracking by Google . This unusual measure on the road over the Bay Bridge was picked up by various mass media in the United States .

Various investors joined in the fall of 2011 when the use of DuckDuckGo had increased significantly. Some journalists saw the switchable advertising on DuckDuckGo as not a business model . DuckDuckGo's official business model is advertising that is related to the search terms.

Some journalists called the name of the search engine silly. When asked about the name, Weinberg stated:

“Really it just popped in my head one day and I just liked it. It is certainly influenced / derived from Duck Duck Goose, but other than that there is no relation, eg a metaphor. "

“Actually it just popped into my head one day and I just liked him. It is of course influenced or derived from Duck Duck Goose , but otherwise there is no reference, for example a metaphor. "

Duck Duck Goose is a children's game that is similar to the Plumpsack game .

DuckDuckGo publishes detailed statistics on traffic and on March 1, 2012 it recorded more than 1.5 million direct searches per day for the first time.

The search engine was featured in the TechCrunch weblog's Elevator Pitch Friday series and was a finalist in the Yahoo! Search BOSS - Mashable Challenge . In July 2010, Weinberg launched a DuckDuckGo community website to give users the opportunity to post problems, discuss the spread of the search engine online, request new features, and discuss releasing the code.

The Linux distribution Linux Mint took DuckDuckGo version 12 as the standard search engine.

After the PRISM monitoring program became known , queries from discrete search engines such as DuckDuckGo and Ixquick / Startpage skyrocketed, with DuckDuckGo they doubled to around 3 million daily. However, like all companies in the United States, DuckDuckGo is subject to the USA PATRIOT Act and is thus obliged to grant authorities such as the FBI , the NSA and the CIA access to its own servers after approval by the FISA secret court . The servers are provided by the web host eNom.com. DuckDuckGo also operates its service on Amazon servers.

Pale Moon uses DuckDuckGo from version 24.4.0 from March 2014 as the default search engine.

In May 2014 the search engine got a new design, which focused on improving the answers provided. At the same time, many new functions were added, which had also previously been requested by users; For example, a picture or local search, automatic completion and more.

The search engine has been blocked in China since the beginning of September 2014.

On September 18, 2014, Apple added DuckDuckGo to its iOS and macOS operating systems as an optional search engine for the standard Safari browser.

On November 10, 2014, Mozilla also added DuckDuckGo as an optional search engine to its Firefox 33.1 browser. In October 2018, DuckDuckGo exceeded 30 million searches per day.

DuckDuckGo can also be reached via ddg.gg and duck.com ; Google received this domain in 2010 through its acquisition of On2 Technologies and transferred it to DuckDuckGo in 2018.

Functions

Zero-click info about a term you are looking for in the JavaScript programming language

DuckDuckGo's search results are a mashup , including Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wikipedia and its own web crawler DuckDuckBot. DuckDuckGo uses data from frequently visited websites, especially Wikipedia, to populate the “zero-click” info box. These are small areas above the search results that contain topic summaries and related topics. DuckDuckGo also offers the option of filtering the results according to commercial shopping pages or info pages without sales intentions. This can be selected through various search buttons on the website. You can also search specific websites, including Amazon , eBay and various blogs , by using the "! Bang" syntax. These are special keywords that begin with an exclamation mark and that can be used in your search query. Searches on de.wikipedia.org are !wdepossible with the keyword .

DuckDuckGo positions itself in the market as a search engine that puts the privacy of its users first. For this reason, no IP addresses are stored, no information about visitors is logged and cookies are only used if they are absolutely necessary. Weinberg says, “DuckDuckGo does not collect or share any personal information by default. In a nutshell, that's our privacy policy . ”Weinberg has enhanced the quality of its search engine to filter out search results for content farms like eHow . 4,000 articles are published there every day, which are produced by independent and paid authors. Weinberg describes this content as "poor quality and created solely to get the page high in the Google search index". DuckDuckGo also tries to filter eHow results as well as results with pages that contain a lot of advertising.

In August 2010, DuckDuckGo introduced anonymous search, a starting point for the cooperation between search engines and the anonymization network Tor . This allows anonymity by routing the data traffic through a large number of encrypted relays. Weinberg said, “I think that fits right in with our privacy policy. By using Tor and DDG, everyone can now search anonymously. And if you use our encrypted homepage, you can also search for " end-to-end encrypted ". "

Since 2018, the service wants to protect the data protection of its users not only during web searches, but also when surfing the Internet. For this purpose, DuckDuckGo has developed new browser extensions for Firefox, Chrome and Safari as well as mobile apps for Android and iOS. According to DuckDuckGo, Google trackers are used on 76 percent of all websites , while 24 percent use Facebook trackers . In practice, the new tools automatically block these and other tracking services on the Internet in order to protect the user's privacy. The solutions are thus similar to known data protection tools and ad blockers such as Ghostery , NoScript or uBlock Origin . In addition, the DuckDuckGo solutions also ensure that an encrypted connection is established with websites, provided they support HTTPS. Many users should be familiar with this functionality from the EFF extension HTTPS Everywhere , which is used as standard in the Tor Browser , among other things .

technology

The search engine is programmed in Perl and runs on FreeBSD with nginx . A small part of the code has been published as free software on the US hosting service GitHub under an Apache 2.0 license.

DuckDuckGo is a combination of a meta search engine and its own web crawler . Primarily based on the programming interfaces of major competitors (e.g. Yahoo! Search BOSS), TechCrunch calls the product a hybrid .

criticism

At the beginning of July 2020 it became known that DuckDuckGo's privacy browser would send all visited websites - or host names - to a server of the software manufacturer. Only after major public criticism did the company react and promise improvement.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

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  17. ^ DuckDuckGo Challenges Google on Privacy (With a Billboard) . In: Wired . January 19, 2011. Retrieved October 28, 2013.
  18. ^ Billboard to highlight how Google tracks users across the Web . In: USA Today . January 14, 2011. Retrieved May 7, 2011.
  19. ^ Union Square Ventures, Others Invest In Alternative Search Engine DuckDuckGo . In: TechCrunch . October 13, 2011. Retrieved October 28, 2013.
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  25. ↑ Direct queries per day . Retrieved April 1, 2012.
  26. ↑ Dan Kimerling: Duck Duck Go, The Hybrid Search Engine . December 12, 2008. 
  27. ^ Adam Hirsch: Voting Round for the BOSS Mashable Challenge . October 7, 2008. 
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  29. ↑ Clement Lefevbre: The Linux Mint Blog: Linux Mint signs a partnership with DuckDuckGo. November 26, 2011, accessed November 27, 2011 .
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  32. ↑ The Misconception of the NSA Safe Search Engine
  33. ↑ Benjamin Schischka: Firefox descendant Pale Moon appeared in a new version .
  34. ↑ DuckDuckGo Blog: DuckDuckGo Reimagined & Redesigned. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 7, 2019 ; accessed on August 7, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / duck.co
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  40. ^ Duck Duck Go FAQ . 
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  42. ^ Duck Duck Go, Inc .: About Duck Duck Go . 
  43. ^ Duck Duck Go, Inc .: Duck Duck Go Launches Shopping Filter . June 9, 2009. Archived from the original on November 1, 2013. 
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  45. ↑ Ben Schwan (Wirtschaftswoche): Search without frills: DuckDuckGo in the test . January 23, 2012. Retrieved June 13, 2013.
  46. ↑ Ole Reißmann (Spiegel online): Google alternative: DuckDuckGo finds no frills . November 15, 2012. Retrieved June 13, 2013.
  47. ↑ DuckDuckGo Privacy .
  48. ↑ Christopher Mims: The Search Engine Backlash Against 'Content Mills' . July 2010. Retrieved July 26, 2010.
  49. ^ Gabriel Weinberg: DuckDuckGo now operates a Tor exit enclave . August 2010. Archived from the original on July 26, 2014. Retrieved on September 30, 2010.
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  52. ↑ Dan Kimerling: Duck Duck Go, the hybrid search engine . Retrieved May 7, 2011.
  53. ^ Gabriel Weinberg: Public remarks by Gabriel Weinberg . Retrieved May 7, 2011.
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  55. ↑ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/privacy/no-tracking/