More People Than Ever Are Using DuckDuckGo; Site Says It Observed 14M Searches in One Day This Month (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on Monday January 23, 2017 @04:00AM from the affinity-for-privacy dept.

An anonymous reader shares a BetaNews article: A lot of people are more privacy aware than they have been in the past, and are wary of entrusting everything they search for to Google. That's where privacy-focused sites like DuckDuckGo come in. Its growth since it launched 8 years ago has been nothing short of staggering, with the number of searches skyrocketing since 2013, when Edward Snowden first revealed how the US government was spying on its people. The search site says it has to date served up over 10 billion anonymous searches, with 4 billion of those occurring in the last year alone, and the company says it is growing faster than ever. On January 10 2017, the site received in excess of 14 million private searches.

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But we have Trump now by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-23 04:02 · Score: 0, Funny

Trump will get rid of all the spying. Thank you Trump.
1. Re:But we have Trump now by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · 2017-01-23 04:07 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  "Obama was doing spying, a lot of spying, and it's been a disaster. We're gonna do spying, they'll be so much spying, you'll be saying "Can we stop some of the spying, just for a change of pace?", but no, we're gonna keep spying, wonderful spying, the best spying you've ever seen"...
Re:Until the money runs out... by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-23 04:50 · Score: 0, Funny

250k is nothing.
hello friend. will you lend me $250k ?