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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNSA fears spark traffic surge on DuckDuckGo search engine
Media coverage of the US National Security Agency's Prism electronic surveillance program, as well as wider publicity for online privacy issues, is sending traffic soaring at search-engine DuckDuckGo.
The site, which promises not to send users' searches to other sites or store any personal information, generated just under 3.1m direct queries on Monday (17 June), compared to its daily average of 1.8m direct queries in the month of May.
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"By not storing any useful information, DuckDuckGo simply isn't useful to these surveillance programs," chief executive Gabriel Weinberg told Silicon Angle last week. "We literally do not store personally identifiable user data, so if the NSA were to get a hold of all our data, it would not be useful to them since it is all truly anonymous."
DuckDuckGo isn't going to knock the big search-engine guns off their perches in the immediate future, but its slogan: Google tracks you. We don't as famously emblazoned on a San Francisco billboard ad appears to be striking a chord with more internet users.
The site, which promises not to send users' searches to other sites or store any personal information, generated just under 3.1m direct queries on Monday (17 June), compared to its daily average of 1.8m direct queries in the month of May.
...
"By not storing any useful information, DuckDuckGo simply isn't useful to these surveillance programs," chief executive Gabriel Weinberg told Silicon Angle last week. "We literally do not store personally identifiable user data, so if the NSA were to get a hold of all our data, it would not be useful to them since it is all truly anonymous."
DuckDuckGo isn't going to knock the big search-engine guns off their perches in the immediate future, but its slogan: Google tracks you. We don't as famously emblazoned on a San Francisco billboard ad appears to be striking a chord with more internet users.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/19/nsa-fears-duckduckgo-search-engine
I think this is only one example of the business fall out from the NSA revelations. It remains to be seen how badly gmail, the Cloud and other entities will be hurt as consumers accept new facts into their choice of internet partners.
https://duckduckgo.com/
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NSA fears spark traffic surge on DuckDuckGo search engine (Original Post)
KurtNYC
Jun 2013
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Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)1. I've been using DuckDuckGo on my personal computer for years but
switched my work computer a few weeks ago.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)2. That's called ramping up! with that rate
The should catch up with google's 5 billion searches a day in about 30 years!
onehandle
(51,122 posts)3. Google has a new 'free' service in Beta called 'Google Mine.'
You tell Google everything you own and everything youre interested in or like and they share this information with the world.
I shit you not.
KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)7. Yep. Just Duck'd it...
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=google+mine
Are they catering to marketers, thieves and narcissistic materialists?
Are they catering to marketers, thieves and narcissistic materialists?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)8. The REAL Beta test for how little people care about their privacy
was Facebook.
I swear it was a Gov't idea to see how much private information people would be willing to give up,
and how tolerant people are of being tracked across the internet.
pscot
(21,024 posts)4. I think I just changed browsers
sibelian
(7,804 posts)5. Cool!
And that's me sorted! K+R!
Waiting For Everyman
(9,385 posts)6. I've been using Duckie for a long while.
I hate all that 'history' stuff. I don't even like auto-fill-in or auto-correct, it only gets in my way.