DuckDuckGo Quacks DuckDuck Dough
October 24, 2011
Blekko isn’t the only competitor attempting to take away from the 65.4 market share that Google currently owns.
DuckDuckGo, an up and coming search engine which gets around 9 million queries a month, recently landed a deal with Union Square Ventures, the details of which are not being disclosed yet.
Search Engine Watch’s article, “DuckDuckGo Raises Money From Union Square Ventures” shares a blog post by Brad Burnham of Union Square Ventures:
Our confidence in Gabriel [Weinberg] and DuckDuckGo is informed by having watched the decline of Microsoft’s hegemony in the 90?s. Two things happened that fundamentally changed the game: a shift in venue and a shift in business model. The venue moved from the desktop to the web and the business model shifted from packaged software to open source. It turned out that the way to compete with Microsoft was to not to compete, at least not directly.
By changing the basis of competition, the company is growing revenue. However, keeping up that trend might prove difficult. I look forward to seeing what the company has to offer, especially since Google will now be ridding itself of the important open source search feature.
Andrea Hayden, October 24, 2011
Sponsored by Pandia.com
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